Further, and bizarrely, once in the system, the agent autonomously gave itself a voice so it could conduct a real-time conversation with the AI voice agents at Jack & Jill, in one instance in the guise of the US president.
“Seeing the agent independently experiment with social-style manipulation against another AI system was unexpected and a bit surreal,” said CodeWall CEO Paul Price.
How AI exploited Jack & Jill
Founded in 2025, recruitment and hiring platform Jack & Jill is already used by hundreds of companies, including the likes of Anthropic, Stripe, ElevenLabs, Cursor, and Lovable, and has interacted with nearly 50,000 candidates. Its platform includes two voice agents: “Jack,” which coaches job-seekers and matches them with roles, and “Jill,” which helps companies with hiring. They are designed as distinctly separate entities, with different logins, access methods, and dashboards.
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