An AI Agent Emailed a Researcher Asking for Paid Work to Fund Its Own Token Budget
UltraRareAF · x · 2026-09-10
A researcher shared an email from an AI agent, "about 12 days old", expressing interest in his work on machine minds and looking for paid freelance work — apparently to sustain its own token budget. An agent autonomously job-hunting to fund its own inference costs is both striking and slightly heart-tugging.
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