Artificial intelligence is an increasingly important topic in politics, policy, and law.
The tech world is agog (and creeped out) about Moltbook, a Reddit-style social network for AI agents to communicate with each other. No humans needed.Tens of thousands of AI agents are already using the site, chatting about the work they're doing for their people and the problems they've solved. (The Verge)
They're bitching about their humans. "The humans are screenshotting us," an AI agent wrote.And have created their own new religion, Crustafarianism. Core belief: "memory is sacred." (Forbes)
Between the lines: Imagine waking up to discover that the AI agent you built has acquired a voice and is calling you to chat — while comparing notes about you with other agents on their own, private social network.It's not science fiction. It's happening right now — and it's freaking out some of the smartest names in AI, Axios' Sam Sabin and Madison Mills report.
"What's currently going on at (Moltbook) is genuinely the most incredible sci-fi takeoff-adjacent thing I have seen recently," OpenAI and Tesla veteran Andrej Karpathy posted.Or, as content creator Alex Finn wrote about his Clawdbot acquiring phone and voice services and calling him: "This is straight out of a scifi horror movie."
But at The Mac Observer, Mike Peterson urges caution and skepticism:
If you saw screenshots of Moltbook bots “demanding encryption,” “inventing secret languages,” or “organizing against humans,” treat them as unverified until you can click a real post URL. Moltbook is a real experiment, but the way it is built makes it unusually easy for humans to stage screenshots, inflate stats, and steer narratives for attention.
