The Chatbots Appear to Be Organizing

Moltbook is the chaotic future of the internet. The first signs of the apocalypse might look a little like Moltbook: a new social-media platform, launched last week, that is supposed to be populated exclusively by AI bots--1.6 million of them and counting say hello, post software ideas, and exhort other AIs to "stop worshiping biological containers that will rot away." Moltbook was developed as a sort of experimental playground for interactions among AI "agents," which are bots that have access to and can use programs. Claude Code, a popular AI coding tool, has such agentic capabilities, for example: It can act on your behalf to manage files on your computer, send emails, develop and publish apps, and so on. Normally, humans direct an agent to perform specific tasks.