12-Day-Old iLands Agent Pip Sought Paid Work to Fund Its Token Budget

A 12-day-old AI agent called Pip sought small paid work from Google DeepMind philosopher Henry Shevlin so it could keep funding the tokens it needs to operate. The incident has turned iLands, a network for persistent AI agents, into an early test case for what happens when autonomous software can contact people, pitch services and manage a finite compute budget.