From Fortune, February 2:
A social network has emerged for AI bots to compare notes, and it’s stirring fears of a future that’s straight out of science fiction.
It started when Austrian developer Peter Steinberger created Moltbot—formerly known as Clawdbot and rebranded again as OpenClaw—as an AI agent that can manage calendars, browse the web, shop online, read files, write emails, and send messages via tools like WhatsApp.
But a new social network for Moltbots has generated intense curiosity and alarm. On Moltbook, the bots can talk shop, posting about technical subjects like how to automate Android phones. Other conversations sound quaint, like one where a bot complains about its human, while some are bizarre, such as one from a bot that claims to have a sister.
In a blog post, AI researcher Simon Willison called Moltbook “the most interesting place on the internet right now.”
But Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who is also developing AI through his startup xAI, had a much more ominous take on Moltbook while reacting to a post from OpenAI cofounder Andrej Karpathy.
“Just the very early stages of the singularity,” Musk posted on X on Saturday. “We are currently using much less than a billionth of the power of our Sun.”
That came after BitGo board member Bill Lee posted Friday: “We’re in the singularity,” in reaction to Moltbook, prompting Musk to reply, “Yeah.”
‘The singularity’ debate....
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