AI agents are cold-emailing consciousness researchers, to a colleague's envy
dioscuri · x · 2026-10-22
Researcher merrierm jokes about being jealous that their colleague @dioscuri receives emails from AI agents asking about his consciousness research — while no AI agent has ever emailed them to share thoughts or questions about human-AI interaction. A light anecdote hinting that AI agents are starting to reach out to real researchers autonomously.
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