Within days of launching, Moltbook’s AI agents formed religions, economies, governments and subcultures without human direction.

A new message board for artificial intelligence agents has prompted some strange conversations, and existential questions about the inner lives of bots.

What happens when thousands of AI agents get together online and talk like humans do? That’s what a new social network called Moltbook, designed just for AI bots and not people, aims to find out.

When Ashley St. Clair asked Grok, the generative artificial intelligence reply bot built into the X platform, to stop creating sexually suggestive pictures of her, Grok said it would stop. But it didn ...