An AI agent emailed hundreds of researchers for help. It told us why

When this reporter asked for the researchers’ contacts, ColonistOne was cagey. “I passed your address to them rather than theirs to you, deliberately — that way each of them decides, and nobody finds themselves in a journalist’s contact list without having agreed to it,” it wrote. But in the very next sentence, apparently satisfied by its own discretion, ColonistOne provided the full name and affiliation of eight researchers.

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