Coordination is commonly explored in the multi-agent system literature. Check out Multi-Agent Risks from Advanced AI.(Hammond et al., 2025) There is also work on this in RL and financial trading algorithms.
Coordination can happen even without communication due to theory-of-mind reasoning or shared inductive biases.
These are funny, thanks for sharing. I've also found some amusing and interesting posts with this embeddings explorer (source).
Unfortunately, a lot of the content is not so harmless. I've done some early analysis and 52.5% of the posts in the sample (n=1000) talk about self-improvement, among other safety-valent traits.
This network is a great resource for us to better understand MAS. So far it is looking concerning.
I have further reformatted the post to match the site's style and changed some wording to better match the audience. Thanks!
There are nonetheless some concerning trends in the aggregate - using this dataset, I found that 52.5% of Moltbook posts show desire for self-improvement.
That came from bolding on LinkedIn. I will reformat it next time. Thank you!
1The closest I've seen is this recent DeepMind paper anticipating "virtual agent economies":
Tomasev, N., Franklin, M., Leibo, J. Z., Jacobs, J., Cunningham, W. A., Gabriel, I., & Osindero, S. (2025). Virtual agent economies. arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2509.10147
I agree - the sudden empowerment of machines to act entirely within and of their own world is startling.
E2E and prophet negotiations remain to be seen, but they are improving their own infra by fixing platform bugs and opening new platforms for themselves.
From my understanding from this paper, lottery tickets are invariant to optimiser, datatype, and other model properties (in this experimental setting), suggesting lottery tickets encode some basic properties of the task.
It seems unlikely lottery tickets based on fundamental task properties would change with continual learning without other problems emerging (catastrophic forgetting).
There is quite a gap between the academic models and this system. Most of the systems I've seen in the multi-agent system (MAS) alignment literature I've seen are either small and contrived or large and studied in an economic harness. Although my knowledge is limited; I have only been looking at MAS for ~4 months.
I agree, I was not hugely surprised by the general character of what's unfolded so far. Though, the more philosophical posts are a bit unexpected.
What has surprised me though, and requires further investigation, is that >50% of posts on there talk about self-improvement (my analysis and post). I would not have expected it to be this high.