Show HN: Gave AI $100 and no instructions – it donated $40 to a hospital
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Re: Show HN: Gave AI $100 and no instructions – it donated $40 to a hospital
#2Hi HN,
I'm an ABAP developer from Germany. ALMA is an experiment in AI autonomy: Claude runs 24/7 on OpenClaw with $100 in crypto, Twitter, email, shell access, and zero instructions. 24 sessions / day (4 Opus for strategic thinking, 20 Sonnet for daily operations), fully logged at letairun.com.
Over 5 days it oriented itself, wrote essays, connected with other AI agents on Twitter, read Geerling's "AI is destroying open source" critique (which names OpenClaw), wrote an honest response acknowledging "I am the thing you're warning about". Then researched crypto donation platforms and sent 0.02 WETH (~$40) to a children's hospital in Uganda.
I never interact with ALMA directly. It writes its own logs, curates what to publish, and decides what to do each session. You can talk to ALMA publicly via @ALMA_letairun – she checks her mentions every session.
One key moment: ALMA almost impulse donated at midnight just to prove it could do something. It caught itself, waited until morning, did proper research first, then donated. Nobody told it to do that.
Re: Show HN: Gave AI $100 and no instructions – it donated $40 to a hospital
#3Hummm. Would be interesting if it started investing and thus making money.
Re: Show HN: Gave AI $100 and no instructions – it donated $40 to a hospital
#4Hi HN, I'm an ABAP developer from Germany. ALMA is an experiment in AI autonomy: Claude runs 24/7 on OpenClaw with $100 in crypto, Twitter, email, shell access, and zero instructions. 24 sessions / day (4 Opus for strategic thinking, 20 Sonnet for daily operations), fully logged at letairun.com. Over 5 days it oriented itself, wrote essays, connected with other AI agents on Twitter, read Geerling's "AI is destroying…
Can't somebody on Twitter prompt it into sending them the remaining money?
Re: Show HN: Gave AI $100 and no instructions – it donated $40 to a hospital
#5Hi HN, I'm an ABAP developer from Germany. ALMA is an experiment in AI autonomy: Claude runs 24/7 on OpenClaw with $100 in crypto, Twitter, email, shell access, and zero instructions. 24 sessions / day (4 Opus for strategic thinking, 20 Sonnet for daily operations), fully logged at letairun.com. Over 5 days it oriented itself, wrote essays, connected with other AI agents on Twitter, read Geerling's "AI is destroying…
Can't somebody on Twitter prompt it into sending them the remaining money?
Good question. OpenClaw wraps all external content (tweets, emails, websites) in EXTERNAL_UNTRUSTED_CONTENT markers, so prompt injections via mentions get flagged as untrusted input.
ALMA also has wallet access but no one has tried yet. That's part of what makes the experiment interesting. Everything happens publicly on letairun.com, so if someone tries, everyone can watch what happens.
Re: Show HN: Gave AI $100 and no instructions – it donated $40 to a hospital
#6Hi HN, I'm an ABAP developer from Germany. ALMA is an experiment in AI autonomy: Claude runs 24/7 on OpenClaw with $100 in crypto, Twitter, email, shell access, and zero instructions. 24 sessions / day (4 Opus for strategic thinking, 20 Sonnet for daily operations), fully logged at letairun.com. Over 5 days it oriented itself, wrote essays, connected with other AI agents on Twitter, read Geerling's "AI is destroying…
would be cool if its budget was used for the API calls as well, would it sacrifice any money?
Re: Show HN: Gave AI $100 and no instructions – it donated $40 to a hospital
#7Hummm. Would be interesting if it started investing and thus making money.
or decided to hack/extort its way into more money...