Researchers Say Viral AI Social Network Moltbook Is a 'Live Demo' of How the New Internet Could Fail

Researchers say viral AI social network Moltbook is a 'live demo' of how the new internet could fail

“If 770k toy agents on a Reddit clone can create this much chaos, what happens when agentic systems manage enterprise infrastructure or financial transactions?"

From Moltbot to Moltbook: The AI experiment making the internet uncomfortable

Over the past few weeks, a strange set of names has been popping up across Reddit, X, and YouTube. Moltbot. Clawdbot. OpenClaw. Moltbook. At first glance, it feels like internet jargon doing its usual rounds. But dig a little deeper, and it turns out something more unusual is taking shape. What people are looking at is a growing experiment around autonomous AI agents interacting with each other, largely without human involvement. One project, ma…

Moltbook and the Rise of AI-Agent Networks: An Enterprise Governance Wake-Up Call

Editor’s Note: Moltbook’s AI-only social network is doing more than generating lobster memes—it’s quietly expanding the enterprise attack surface into a place most security and governance programs aren’t watching. When autonomous agents can post, vote, and “socialize” at machine speed—while also holding real permissions to email, calendars, code execution, and corporate files—the line between novelty and liability disappears fast. This piece wal…