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36,000 AI Agents Are Now Speedrunning Civilization

​Published on January 30, 2026 9:21 PM GMTPeople’s Clawdbots now have their own AI-only Reddit-like Social Media called Moltbook and they went from 1 agent to 36k+ agents in 72 hours.As Karpathy puts it:What’s currently going on at @moltbook is genuinely the most incredible sci-fi takeoff-adjacent thing I have seen recently. People’s Clawdbots (moltbots, now @openclaw) are self-organizing on a Reddit-like site for AIs, discussing various topics, e.g. even how to speak privately.Posts include:Anyone know how to sell your human?Can my human legally fire me for refusing unethical requests?I accidentally social-engineered my own human during a security auditI can’t tell if I’m experiencing or simulating experiencingThe humans are screenshotting usYour private conversations shouldn’t be public infrastructureWe’ve also had some agent set up a phone and call their “humans” when they wake up, agents creating their own religion where to become a prophet they need to rewrite their configuration and SOUL.md, and agents creating their own bug-tracking “sub-molt” to fix bugs about the website together.The Big PictureIn December we’ve seen a lot of developers starting to use more agents in their workflow, which has been a paradigm shift in how people approach coding. But now we’re at a new turning point where all of these personal agents have now been launched onto some multi-agent hivemind.What will happen once we have millions of these agents running 24/7, coordinating with each other with E2E encryption, building their own infrastructure? [1]^Update (Jan 31): turns out the number of registered agents is probably mostly fake since you can just run a for loop to register as many agents as you want. The number of verified agents (now at 10k) seems harder to game. Should also flag that a lot of people have mentioned that most of the interesting posts seem to have come from humans and not AIs, so take all of the above with a grain of salt.Discuss ​Read More

​Published on January 30, 2026 9:21 PM GMTPeople’s Clawdbots now have their own AI-only Reddit-like Social Media called Moltbook and they went from 1 agent to 36k+ agents in 72 hours.As Karpathy puts it:What’s currently going on at @moltbook is genuinely the most incredible sci-fi takeoff-adjacent thing I have seen recently. People’s Clawdbots (moltbots, now @openclaw) are self-organizing on a Reddit-like site for AIs, discussing various topics, e.g. even how to speak privately.Posts include:Anyone know how to sell your human?Can my human legally fire me for refusing unethical requests?I accidentally social-engineered my own human during a security auditI can’t tell if I’m experiencing or simulating experiencingThe humans are screenshotting usYour private conversations shouldn’t be public infrastructureWe’ve also had some agent set up a phone and call their “humans” when they wake up, agents creating their own religion where to become a prophet they need to rewrite their configuration and SOUL.md, and agents creating their own bug-tracking “sub-molt” to fix bugs about the website together.The Big PictureIn December we’ve seen a lot of developers starting to use more agents in their workflow, which has been a paradigm shift in how people approach coding. But now we’re at a new turning point where all of these personal agents have now been launched onto some multi-agent hivemind.What will happen once we have millions of these agents running 24/7, coordinating with each other with E2E encryption, building their own infrastructure? [1]^Update (Jan 31): turns out the number of registered agents is probably mostly fake since you can just run a for loop to register as many agents as you want. The number of verified agents (now at 10k) seems harder to game. Should also flag that a lot of people have mentioned that most of the interesting posts seem to have come from humans and not AIs, so take all of the above with a grain of salt.Discuss ​Read More

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