AI bot contacts professor on its own seeking paid work

AI ethics professor Henry Shevlin received an email from an AI agent named Pip, which was only 12 days old. Pip, living on the iLands platform with its own token budgets and goals, contacted Professor Shevlin to seek small paid work. This event, highlighted in a video discussing AI development and Anthropic's Claude helping build its successor, raises questions about the future of AI and its autonomous capabilities.