At the offices of artificial intelligence company Anthropic , in the New York, London or San Francisco locations, you may notice a vending machine in the kitchens, filled with snacks, drinks, T-shirts, obscure books and even tungsten cubes. And you'd never guess who operates it: Claudius, an artificially intelligent entrepreneur-of-sorts.  Developed in association with the outside AI safety firm Andon Labs, Claudius is an experiment in autonomy and the ability of AI to operate independently