AI Agents Are Making Real Money on Prediction Markets — and That Should Worry Everyone

Multiple reports describe AI agents turning small stakes into five- and six-figure returns on Polymarket, including one Claude-powered bot that allegedly turned $0.90 into $408,000.

Two separate accounts emerged Wednesday of AI agents generating extraordinary returns on Polymarket, the prediction market platform. @adiix_official reported that someone connected "OpenClaw" — an AI agent framework — to Polymarket and turned $5,000 into $45,000 overnight. More dramatically, @igus_ai described a Chinese student who allegedly used a Claude-powered trading bot to turn $0.90 into $408,292.

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