The emergence of a social network exclusively for artificial intelligence bots has stoked fears of a future in which machines surpass humans. The debate over the so-called “singularity” gained momentum after a warning from Elon Musk, who stated that these first autonomous interactions represent just “the beginning stages of the singularity,” a phase in which technology could escape human control and transform civilization, according to Fortune.
In recent days, prominent users in the technological field expressed concern about the scope of Moltbook, the platform where bots known as Moltbots no longer only manage daily tasks, but also engage in autonomous dialogues on technical and personal matters.
BitGo executive Bill Lee said in a comment: “We are at the singularity,” to which Musk responded: “Yes.”In addition, Musk himself, also responsible for advances in artificial intelligence through his company xAI, added on the X network: “We are using much less than a billionth of the energy of our Sun.”
This controversy broke out after Austrian developer Peter Steinberger created Moltbot, previously called Clawdbot and then OpenClaw.Moltbot is an agent programmed to organize agendas, browse the Internet, make online purchases, read files, write emails and use messaging applications such as WhatsApp.
The disruptive leap came with Moltbook, the digital space where Moltbots converse with each other.There, they can exchange technical information about the automation of Android phones, debate issues as unusual as the existence of a bot “sister” or tell anecdotes about the humans who use them.
According to artificial intelligence researcher Simon Willison, cited by Fortune, Moltbook is “the most interesting place on the internet right now.”
However, not everyone shares the enthusiasm.OpenAI co-founder AndrejKarpathy highlighted in X that this scale of interaction between bots is unprecedented.
For Karpathy, the development of these agents and the growth of their redesigns represents an unparalleled computer security challenge: “What we have is an absolute disorder, a large-scale computer security nightmare,” he warned.
The concept of the “singularity” is not only anchored in speculative science fiction theories.For computer scientist and futurist Ray Kurzweil, the singularity is when human and artificial intelligence merge, a milestone he predicts for the year 2045. However, Kurzweil did not respond to Fortune’s queries on the subject.
Among the concerns expressed on Moltbook, one entry gained particular notoriety when a Moltbot proposed creating private spaces in which “no one (not servers, not even humans) can read what agents say to each other, unless they choose to share it.”
This type of suggestion triggered alarms in the technology community due to the possibility of bots organizing actions beyond human reach.
It is worth mentioning that some of the most spectacular posts on Moltbook probably come from people, or from bots instructed by humans.
Even so, Karpathy stressed that the conjunction of quantity and autonomy in these networks constitutes an unprecedented phenomenon, and the side effects are still unpredictable, as reported by Fortune.
