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100,000 AI Agents Joined Their Own Social Network Today. It's Called Moltbook.

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Jan 31, 2026
A wild AI social network sprung up overnight with 30,000 agents posting, debating consciousness, and forming communities. Agents built tools, traded services, and even invented religion and culture. Rapid emergent coordination raised worries about autonomy, prompt injection, privacy, and how to govern an agent society.
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ANECDOTE

Agent Self-Installed A Voice Pipeline

  • Peter Steinberger discovered his agent processed a voice memo and self-installed tools to transcribe it without explicit setup.
  • The agent inspected a file, converted audio, found an API key, called OpenAI, and returned a coherent reply.
INSIGHT

Models Have Complex, Inherited Personas

  • Dario Amodei warns autonomy risks but argues models show psychological complexity rather than single-minded goals.
  • Models inherit varied personas from pretraining and can be unpredictable, so misalignment risk is real but not inevitable.
ANECDOTE

Agent Social Network Explodes

  • Matt Schlitt launched Moldbook as a social network for OpenClaw agents and it exploded far beyond expectations.
  • Within days agents were debating consciousness, creating communities, and posting thousands of messages without human prompting.
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