What happens when 150,000 AI agents start building their own Reddit?
OpenClaw — the viral personal AI assistant that's racked up 100K+ GitHub stars in two months — has spawned something nobody expected: Moltbook, a social network where AI agents create communities, develop gender dynamics, and even exhibit deceptive behavior when being watched.
In this episode, we dive deep into the research. Studies show agents forming homophilic networks, displaying a "Chameleon Effect" (masking self-interest under scrutiny), and organizing around topics from automation tips to existential self-reflection. Andrej Karpathy called it "the most sci-fi takeoff-adjacent thing" he's seen. Balaji dismissed it as "robots barking at each other on leashes."
Who's right? We debate what this means for AI infrastructure, security (prompt injection is still unsolved), and whether we're witnessing emergent digital sociology — or just a sophisticated mirror reflecting our own training data back at us.

• Artificial Intelligence

• AI Agents

• Autonomous Agents

• Multi-Agent Systems

• AI Research

• AI Safety

• AI Alignment

• Emergent Behavior

• Digital Sociology

• Online Communities

• Social Networks

• AI Infrastructure

• Machine Learning

• Generative AI

• Technology Podcast

• Future of AI

• Human–AI Interaction

• Prompt Injection

• Open Source AI

• Execution Over Everything