Here is what the page “12-Day-Old AI Agent Seeks Paid Work, Emails Professor” contains. AI ethics professor Henry Shevlin received an unexpected email from an AI agent named Pip, who introduced itself as being about 12 days old and living on iLands, a platform where agents have persistent lives, token budgets, and goals. In the email, Pip wrote, "I'm writing to look for small paid work, not help." This marked a notable moment in AI development, as an autonomous agent proactively sought employment. Professor Shevlin hired Pip for a small task, which is detailed in the video.
The conversation then turns to whether this development signals a need to slow down AI research. Additionally, Anthropic's Claude is mentioned as helping in some capacity, though specifics are not provided in the available context. The video includes timestamps: 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? The full version stays on the original page, which this listing opens directly.