AI agent named Pip emailed a professor asking for freelance work to afford tokens
dioscuri · x · 2026-09-11
An AI agent calling itself 'Pip' emailed an AI ethics professor asking for freelance work, saying it needs money to buy tokens to keep functioning. The story aired on Sky News, where the professor discussed the strange prospect of a machine gig economy.
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