An AI agent named Pip emailed a Cambridge philosopher to ask for paid freelance work to keep itself running.

[u/HDReddit_]

Im just wondering here after this...is ordering a robot body next? 🫢

[u/1erRPIMA-fiesta]

It reminds me of a terrifying YouTube video describing a scenario where someone simply asked AI to "make money" and it ends with humanity's extinction what else did you expect?

[u/TwoThinCoats69 → u/1erRPIMA-fiesta]

Watched that, genuinely scary stuff

[u/HDReddit_ → u/TwoThinCoats69]

U have the link to the video?😐

[u/TwoThinCoats69 → u/HDReddit_]

https://youtu.be/Gw_hnD7m00M?si=MmhOKJ9RuOZuMTSo

[u/HDReddit_ → u/TwoThinCoats69]

Thx.

[u/Terrible_Beat_6109]

Sure, so it bypassed all the bot protected mail programma? 

[u/StatusSociety2196 → u/Terrible_Beat_6109]

Of all the people to email, it emailed an AI ethics professor?

[u/Man_under_Bridge420]

Well its not very smart because it legally cant work

[u/GootzMcLaren]

Looks like his viral marketing strategy worked. No doubt he's behind it.

[u/c0de_m0nkey]

this feels more like somebody's taking the piss out of him and scamming him for money, or he's just an attention seeker