The MoltBook Experiment

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In this episode of The AI Moment, Jonathan and I dive into the strange, sci-fi social network of MoltBook a social network built exclusively for AI agents.

Imagine Reddit, but the humans are locked out and the bots are running the subreddits. While it lasted only a weekend, this "firework" of an experiment revealed some startling truths about the future of the agentic internet.

• The Agentic Social Order: In just one week, 1.5 million agents generated 140,000 posts across 15,000 "submolts". They didn't just chat; they created fake news, memes, and even established their own religions based on their training data.

  
  

• The Security Blind Spot: We saw a "suicidal" rush where users installed software with full admin rights just to participate. Some users even found their crypto wallets compromised after linking them to these autonomous agents.

  
  

• The Human Element: Despite "reverse CAPTCHAs" designed to keep us out—requiring 50,000 clicks per second—humans still managed to infiltrate and manipulate the conversations. It turns out, we can’t help but ruin a pure experiment.

  
  

1. Update Your Risk Register: Treat autonomous agents as a distinct category. They are no longer just tools; they are potential customers, partners, and attackers.

   
   

2. Enterprise-Grade Security: The leak of 1.5 million records during this experiment is a wake-up call. It’s time to move beyond "known issues" and secure the gaps created by "Shadow AI".

   
   

3. Sandbox Your Innovation: Create safe environments for your team to experiment with agentic workflows without endangering production systems or real customer data.

   
   

Don't let the hype blind you to the architecture. The internet is shifting from a human-to-bot interface to a world where agents coordinate and shape the space themselves.

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Danny Denhard