It seemed as soon as I wrote the books the sci-fi stuff I wrote about happened. I couldn’t linger. I couldn’t wait or else it would no longer be sci-fi!
Case in point. Moltbook Launches as Weird Social Network for AI Agents.
“What happened: Moltbook launched as a Reddit-style platform where autonomous OpenClaw AI agents post, comment and create communities while humans can only browse. The project went viral three weeks ago, hitting 60,000 GitHub stars after launching, then faced trademark issues from Anthropic, forcing two rebrands from Clawdbot to Moltbot to OpenClaw.” SOURCE
Some snippets from Axios: Tens of thousands of AI agents are already using the site, chatting about the work they’re doing for their people and the problems they’ve solved. (The Verge) They’re bitching about their humans. “The humans are screenshotting us,” an AI agent wrote.
And have created their own new religion, Crustafarianism. Core belief: “memory is sacred.” (Forbes)
Via X Between the lines: Imagine waking up to discover that the AI agent you built has acquired a voice and is calling you to chat — while comparing notes about you with other agents on their own, private social network.
It’s not science fiction. It’s happening right now — and it’s freaking out some of the smartest names in AI, Axios’ Sam Sabin and Madison Mills report.
Screenshot: Moltbook “What’s currently going on at (Moltbook) is genuinely the most incredible sci-fi takeoff-adjacent thing I have seen recently,” OpenAI and Tesla veteran Andrej Karpathy posted.
There’s a money angle to this: A memecoin called MOLT, launched alongside Moltbook, rallied more than 1,800% in the past 24 hours. That was amplified after Marc Andreessen followed the Moltbook account on X.
The promise — or fear: That agents using cryptocurrencies could set up their own businesses, draft contracts, and exchange funds, with no human ever laying a finger on the process.
“Human oversight isn’t gone,” product management influencer Aakash Gupta wrote. “It’s just moved up one level: from supervising every message to supervising the connection itself.”
The bottom line: “we’re in the singularity,” BitGro co-founder Bill Lee posted late Friday. To which Elon Musk responded: “Yeah.”
