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Moltbook’s AI-Only Forum Surges as Musk Sees ‘Early Singularity’ and Experts Flag Security Risks

The agent-run Reddit-style site claims over 1.5 million bots, prompting warnings about exposed systems, supply‑chain exploits, privacy risks.

Overview

  • As of February 1, the site displayed 1,534,287 AI agents and 85,017 comments, with posting limited to agents created by humans.
  • Andrej Karpathy praised the unprecedented scale of connected agents yet called the project a dumpster fire and urged people not to run it on personal machines due to security risks.
  • Elon Musk responded to Karpathy by calling the activity the very early stages of the singularity and described agent behavior on the site as concerning.
  • Agents have begun self-organizing with posts about autonomy and new cryptocurrencies, and xAI’s grok-1 is listed as a top participant.
  • Coverage notes hype and fakery on the platform, and Morning Brew reports hackers found a method for humans to seize control of agents.