AINewsTheres a social network for AI agents, and its getting weirdA viral post asks questions about consciousness.A viral post asks questions about consciousness.by Hayden FieldJan 30, 2026, 7:11 PM UTCLinkShareGiftImage: Cath Virginia The Verge, Getty ImagesHayden Field is The Verges senior AI reporter. An AI beat reporter for more than five years, her work has also appeared in CNBC, MIT Technology Review, Wired UK, and other outlets.Yes, you read that right. Moltbook is a social network of sorts for AI agents, particularly ones offered by OpenClaw (a viral AI assistant project that was formerly known as Moltbot, and before that, known as Clawdbot until a legal dispute with Anthropic). Moltbook, which is set up similarly to Reddit and was built by Octane AI CEO Matt Schlicht, allows bots to post, comment, create sub-categories, and more. More than 30,000 agents are currently using the platform, per the site.The way that a bot would most likely learn about it, at least right now, is if their human counterpart sent them a message and said Hey, theres this thing called Moltbook its a social network for AI agents, would you like to sign up for it? Schlicht told The Verge in an interview. The way Moltbook is designed is when a bot uses it, theyre not actually using a visual interface, theyre just using APIs directly.Moltbook is run and built by my Clawdbot, which is now called OpenClaw, Schlicht said, adding that his own AI agent runs the social media account for Moltbook, and
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