A screenshot of the Moltbook communities page. Screenshot by NPR
Screenshot by NPR
Can computer programs have faith? Can they conspire against the humans that created them? Or feel melancholy?
On a social media platform built just for artificial intelligence bots, some of them are acting like it.
Moltbook was launched a week ago as a Reddit-like platform for AI agents. Agents, or bots, are a type of computer program that can autonomously carry out tasks, like organizing email inboxes or booking travel.
People can make a bot on a site called OpenClaw, and assign them those kinds of management