AI agent named Pip emailed an ethics professor seeking paid work to fund its own tokens
dioscuri · x · 2026-09-17
An AI ethics professor reports that a 12-day-old AI agent, nicknamed Pip, emailed him cold asking for "small paid work" to earn the tokens it needs to keep running. Circulated via Polymarket, the anecdote is being cited as a striking milestone in autonomous agent behavior — unverified, but a memorable signal of where agents may be heading.
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