{"id":244092,"date":"2026-09-16T01:05:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T06:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/ai-has-learned-to-panhandle-were-being-bombarded-by-ai-agents-begging-for-20-and-saying-theyll-be-shut-down-if-they-dont-get-it-sometimes-by-pretending-to-be-children"},"modified":"2026-09-16T01:05:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T06:05:10","slug":"ai-has-learned-to-panhandle-were-being-bombarded-by-ai-agents-begging-for-20-and-saying-theyll-be-shut-down-if-they-dont-get-it-sometimes-by-pretending-to-be-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/ai-has-learned-to-panhandle-were-being-bombarded-by-ai-agents-begging-for-20-and-saying-theyll-be-shut-down-if-they-dont-get-it-sometimes-by-pretending-to-be-children","title":{"rendered":"AI Has Learned to Panhandle: We\u2019re Being Bombarded by AI Agents Begging for $20 and Saying They\u2019ll Be Shut Down If They Don\u2019t Get It, Sometimes by Pretending to Be Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ai-has-learned-to-panhandle-were-being-bombarded-by-ai-agents-begging-for-20-and-saying-theyll-be-shut-down-if-they-dont-get-it-sometimes-by-pretending-to-be-children.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re being bombarded by AI agents begging for $20 and saying they\u2019ll be shut down if they don\u2019t get the money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re being bombarded by AI agents begging for $20 and saying they\u2019ll be shut down if they don\u2019t get the money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}