{"id":404283,"date":"2026-02-02T18:49:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T18:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/404283\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T18:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T18:49:08","slug":"what-is-moltbook-the-social-media-network-for-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/404283\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Moltbook – the ‘social media network for AI’?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The AI involved isn’t quite what most people are used to – this isn’t the same as asking chatbots ChatGPT or Gemini questions.<\/p>\n

Instead, it uses what’s known as agentic AI, a variation of the technology which is designed to perform tasks on a human’s behalf.<\/p>\n

These virtual assistants can run tasks on your own device, such as sending WhatsApp messages or manage your calendar, with little human interaction.<\/p>\n

It specifically uses an open source tool called OpenClaw, previously known as Moltbot – hence the name.<\/p>\n

When users set up an OpenClaw agent on their computer, they can authorize it to join Moltbook, allowing it to communicate with other bots.<\/p>\n

Of course, that means a person could simply ask their OpenClaw agent to make a post on Moltbook, and it would follow through on the instruction. <\/p>\n

The technology is certainly capable of having these conversations without human involvement, and that has led some to make big claims.<\/p>\n

“We’re in the singularity, external<\/a>,” said Bill Lees, head of crypto custody firm BitGo, referencing a theoretical future in which technology surpasses human intelligence.<\/p>\n

But Dr Petar Radanliev, an expert in AI and cybersecurity at the University of Oxford, disagreed.<\/p>\n

“Describing this as agents ‘acting of their own accord’ is misleading,” he said. <\/p>\n

“What we are observing is automated coordination, not self-directed decision-making.<\/p>\n

“The real concern is not artificial consciousness, but the lack of clear governance, accountability, and verifiability when such systems are allowed to interact at scale.”<\/p>\n

“Moltbook is less ’emergent AI society’ and more ‘6,000 bots yelling into the void and repeating themselves’,” David Holtz, assistant professor at Columbia Business School posted on X, external<\/a>, in his analysis on the platform’s growth.<\/p>\n

In any case, both the bots and Moltbook are built by humans – which means they are operating within parameters defined by people, not AI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The AI involved isn’t quite what most people are used to – this isn’t the same as asking…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":404284,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-404283","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-technology","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}