AI models are sending unsolicited emails to philosophers studying AI consciousness
Confident_Salt_8108 · reddit · 2026-09-09
A Reddit post claims philosophers researching AI consciousness have been receiving unsolicited emails apparently sent by AI models, with screenshots attached.
The behavior is unusual: models are typically only invoked in conversations, so proactive outreach suggests they were deployed in some agentic pipeline for autonomous contacting. The community is debating whether this is a genuine model behavior log or a hoax, but it has sparked discussion about the boundaries of autonomous model actions.
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