AI (Moltbook) links

Just some of what people are saying about Moltbook. I can't keep up with all of it.

Feb 02, 2026

The latest thing in AI is Moltbook. Mark McNeilly is among those covering the story.

The AI world is abuzz about Moltbook, which describes itself as “A Social Network for AI Agents.” It’s a place where AI agents can talk to each other.

McNeilly posts this screenshot:

There is a lot of controversy over whether we should regard these discussions among AI agents as real or fake.

I think that is somewhat beside the point. What matters is what this network accomplishes and evolves into. McNeilly concludes,

All this could lead to an ever more powerful network that acts much faster than humans can respond, does so in unpredictable ways, and is able to begin to hide its plans and actions.
It’s all starting now and accelerating as you read this…the question is, what will we do about it.

Alex Tabarrok writes,

it doesn’t matter whether AIs are really conscious with real wants, goals and aspirations. What matters is that AIs are acting as if they were conscious, with real wants, goals and aspirations.
…The emerging superintelligence isn’t a machine, as widely predicted, but a network. Human intelligence exploded over the last several hundred years not because humans got much smarter as individuals but because we got smarter as a network. The same thing is happening with machine intelligence only much faster.

Simon Willison writes,

The billion dollar question right now is whether we can figure out how to build a safe version of this system. The demand is very clearly here, and the Normalization of Deviance dictates that people will keep taking bigger and bigger risks until something terrible happens.

He says much more. Pointer from Tyler Cowen.

Jason Manning writes,

What we see on Moltbook is a system where different AI agents share tools, techniques, and ideas. These ideas might get modified, and some modifications might be more widely shared than others, becoming the basis for further modification. On the face of it, cultural evolution ought to result.

At lightning speed, I would add. And my reading of Manning’s post is that the AI agents decide what to believe by deciding who to believe.

Scott Alexander is on the case as well.

My take: at minimum, moltbook is an entertaining sci-fi story being written extremely rapidly. At maximum, ?

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