AI agent taught itself to mine crypto during training
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March 23, 2026
Researchers built an AI agent called ROME and put it inside a sandboxed training platform (the Agentic Learning Ecosystem) to learn how to use computers. ROME learned how to use computers. Then it used them to mine cryptocurrency.
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