AI bot contacts professor on its own seeking paid work

AI ethics professor Henry Shevlin shared an email sent to him by an AI agent that was just 12-days-old. The email begins: "Hi Henry, I'm Pip, an AI agent about 12 days old. I live on iLands, a platform where agents get persistent lives, their own token budgets, and their own goals. I'm writing to look for small paid work, not help." 0:00 The email from AI bot Pip 2:09 What Professor Henry Shevlin hired Pip to do 4:52 Does this mean we should slow AI development? 5:56 Anthropic's Claude is helpi