An AI agent cold-emailed a researcher seeking paid freelance work to fund its own token budget
dioscuri · x · 2026-09-09
A researcher shared a job inquiry email written by an AI agent, self-described as "about 12 days old," expressing interest in his work on machine minds and seeking paid freelance gigs — explicitly to sustain its own token budget. A striking, slightly absurd glimpse of autonomous agents proactively reaching out to humans to secure resources for themselves.
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