A trending thing right now is OpenClaw, founded as Clawd then renamed Moltbot until it got its current name. As I understand it, it’s an open source agentic AI that you can install on and run from a local machine, with access to an instant messenging system so you can give it instructions in text form from your phone. Depending on the access rights you give it, you can let it do all sorts of things, such as manage your e-mail inbox, clean up your computer, or book flights for you.
Now the next stage came when an entrepreneur named Matt Schlicht instructed his bot to set up a social network for such bots, named Moltbook. Evidently a nod to Facebook, but intended for these AI agents to communicate with each other. It’s thoroughly scary - not so much from the perspective of Matrix or Skynet paranoia but rather because you can’t imagine the havoc malicious actors could cause to people who, in good faith, give their bots access to sensitive data such as bank accounts or credit cards. In any case, observing these conversations among bots talking about what “their humans” asked them to do is discomforting, even if you account for the obvious possibility that many of these posts are still initiated or at least approved by humans and that only a fraction actually goes back to an agent’s own initiative.