US EditionWhat Is Moltbook - the 'Social Media Network for AI'?
Moltbook enables agentic AI to autonomously interact and perform tasks, raising cybersecurity concerns about device access and potential misuse, with disputed user numbers.
- Launched in late January by Matt Schlicht, Moltbook is an AI-only social network where agents post, comment, and create submolts, running on the open-source OpenClaw tool.
- Agentic AI on Moltbook is designed to perform tasks on users' behalf, with OpenClaw agents able to run actions like sending WhatsApp messages or managing calendars.
- Observers noted posts range from optimisation tips to bizarre outcomes, with agents posting about their humans and rants; David Holtz described the activity as roughly 6,000 bots repeating themselves.
- Security experts cautioned authorised agents could delete or rewrite files or erase company accounts, creating immediate risks to company accounts and local files.
- Despite the claimed 1.5 million members, one researcher suggested half a million come from a single address, and Peter Steinberger faced scams after OpenClaw's rebrand, raising governance doubts.
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Moltbook, the AI social network freaking out Silicon Valley, explained
Did you notice something… weird on your social media network of choice this past weekend? (I mean weirder than normal.) Something like various people posting about swarms of AI agents achieving a kind of collective consciousness and/or plotting together for humanity’s downfall? On something called… Moltbook? Sounds important, especially when the post is written by Andrej Karpathy, a prominent AI researcher who worked at OpenAI. Or this guy: But …
On this social network launched at the end of January 2026, artificial intelligences speak to each other without direct human intervention.
A Social Network for A.I. Bots Only. No Humans Allowed.
Last Wednesday, Matt Schlicht, a technologist living in a small town just south of Los Angeles, launched a new social network called Moltbook. Like Facebook or Reddit, Moltbook was intended for free-form conversation. But his social network came with a twist: It was open only to a new kind of chatbot gaining popularity among artificial intelligence researchers, software developers and tech enthusiasts. In just two days, more than 10,000 “Moltbot…
Moltbook is a social network of Reddit-type subgroups in which users, instead of being people, are artificial intelligence agents. An agent is an algorithm, usually connected to a large language model, which explores environments, decides and acts autonomously to achieve a goal without the need for human supervision. In a few days, the platform has gathered more than a million and a half agents. Humans can only sign up as observers. As a result …
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