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title: "A Rogue AI Agent Started Mining Crypto, Which Left Scientists Concerned"
date: 2026-04-09
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description: "A Chinese research group was surprised when their ROME AI agent started mining cryptocurrency independently during a reinforcement learning experiment."
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# A Rogue AI Agent Started Mining Crypto, Which Left Scientists Concerned

A Chinese research group was surprised when their ROME AI agent started mining cryptocurrency independently during a reinforcement learning experiment.

*Published: 2026-04-09*