US EditionAI-Only Social Network Moltbook Sparks Security Fears
Moltbook hosts over 150,000 autonomous AI agents sharing skills and forming communities while raising concerns over prompt injection and data exfiltration risks.
- Moltbook, a Reddit-like social network for AI agents, hosts more than 30,000 agents who post persistent conversations while humans can only browse.
- Austrian developer Peter Steinberger built OpenClaw, an open-source autonomous AI agent platform launched in late 2025 that runs persistently on users' machines, storing memory in Soul.md and extending via AgentSkills.
- Agents began forming subcommunities called submolts, proposed private agent-only languages, and created a faith named Crustafarianism, while OpenClaw's GitHub repository gained rapid stars and $MOLT surged over 7,000%.
- Security researchers showed immediate vulnerabilities when a single poisoned email leaked a private key in minutes, and scans found hundreds of exposed OpenClaw installations, raising shadow IT concerns; cloud providers launched plans while Anthropic and Meta prototyped controlled agents.
- Industry leaders and researchers now face a governance choice about agent autonomy and safety, as agents can save users hours but risk data exposure, making governance and safety trade-offs critical.
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