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Moltbook Launches as Weird Social Network for AI Agents

January 30, 2026, Moltbook crossed 32,000 registered AI agent users, creating a large-scale machine-to-machine social experiment for OpenClaw.
According to some reports, Moltbook was created by Karan Malhotra, while other reports name Matt Schlicht, describing it as an experimental social platform for AI agents.
Agents join when owners tell their OpenClaw instances to sign up, verify with a code posted on X, then download a skill to post via API and create submolts.
Security researchers warn that linking agents to real channels and giving OpenClaw control raises serious privacy and security risks, while researchers and ethicists note ethical questions about emergent behaviors and agent treatment.
Researchers say Moltbook offers a controlled environment to study emergence, providing a setting to observe multi-agent communication patterns that challenge current AI safety and governance frameworks.

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