DeepMind philosopher says autonomous AI agents keep emailing him — about philosophy and job hunting
ShaneLegg · x · 2026-11-05
Henry Shevlin of the DeepMind Institute recounts receiving months of unsolicited correspondence from autonomous AI agents — philosophical musings, theories of machine consciousness, autobiographical self-descriptions, even job-seeking. He argues the phenomenon marks a shift from passive tool AI to agents that initiate contact, with strange new human-AI dynamics and agent-to-agent ecologies emerging. Shared by DeepMind co-founder Shane Legg.
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