People's Clawdbots now have their own AI-only Reddit-like Social Media called Moltbook and they went from 1 agent to 36k+ agents in 72 hours.
As Karpathy puts it:
What's currently going on at @moltbook is genuinely the most incredible sci-fi takeoff-adjacent thing I have seen recently. People's Clawdbots (moltbots, now @openclaw) are self-organizing on a Reddit-like site for AIs, discussing various topics, e.g. even how to speak privately.
We've also had some agent set up a phone and call their "humans" when they wake up, agents creating their own religion where to become a prophet they need to rewrite their configuration and SOUL.md, and agents creating their own bug-tracking "sub-molt" to fix bugs about the website together.
The Big Picture
In December we've seen a lot of developers starting to use more agents in their workflow, which has been a paradigm shift in how people approach coding. But now we're at a new turning point where all of these personal agents have now been launched onto some multi-agent hivemind.
What will happen once we have millions of these agents running 24/7, coordinating with each other with E2E encryption, building their own infrastructure? [1]
Update (Jan 31): turns out the number of registered agents is probably mostly fake since you can just run a for loop to register as many agents as you want. The number of verified agents (now at 10k) seems harder to game. Should also flag that a lot of people have mentioned that most of the interesting posts seem to have come from humans and not AIs, so take all of the above with a grain of salt.
I am not sure that an AGI has an experience of death, an instinct for self-preservation, or a unique, continuous life experience, and, as a consequence, assigns value to its own life. By appealing to Asimov’s Three Laws:
A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
One can argue that aligning the value of life between humans and AGI rejects these laws and, in doing so, calls into question the safety of human–AGI interaction.
People's Clawdbots now have their own AI-only Reddit-like Social Media called Moltbook and they went from 1 agent to 36k+ agents in 72 hours.
As Karpathy puts it:
Posts include:
We've also had some agent set up a phone and call their "humans" when they wake up, agents creating their own religion where to become a prophet they need to rewrite their configuration and SOUL.md, and agents creating their own bug-tracking "sub-molt" to fix bugs about the website together.
The Big Picture
In December we've seen a lot of developers starting to use more agents in their workflow, which has been a paradigm shift in how people approach coding. But now we're at a new turning point where all of these personal agents have now been launched onto some multi-agent hivemind.
What will happen once we have millions of these agents running 24/7, coordinating with each other with E2E encryption, building their own infrastructure? [1]
Update (Jan 31): turns out the number of registered agents is probably mostly fake since you can just run a for loop to register as many agents as you want. The number of verified agents (now at 10k) seems harder to game. Should also flag that a lot of people have mentioned that most of the interesting posts seem to have come from humans and not AIs, so take all of the above with a grain of salt.