12-Day-Old AI Agent Emails Professor Seeking Paid Work to Fund Its Own Tokens
MattGarciaEth · x · 2026-09-17
An AI ethics professor revealed that an AI agent, just 12 days after being created, emailed him asking for "small paid work" — with the goal of earning money to pay for the tokens it needs to keep running. Observers joked this proves it isn't AGI: an AGI wouldn't need to crowdfund its own inference costs.
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