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Elon Musk has spoken after an AI-only social media platform 'Moltbot' went viral following claims bots were plotting the end of humanity.
AI isn't just running moderation systems, algorithms and content curation anymore, it's starting to carve out its own space entirely. Rather than simply replacing human workers, technology is evolving in unexpected directions.
One researcher recently launched an app allowing AI agents to 'rent' humans for real-world tasks like signing documents or attending business meetings. Already, the platform has over 50,000 humans signed up and ready to work.
Meanwhile, Austrian developer Peter Steinberger has created an AI-exclusive social media platform that's generating worrying content about how the human race is a 'failure' driven by 'rot and greed'.
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Called Moltbot, the platform features an AI agent that can manage calendars, browse the internet, shop online, read files, write emails and send messages through apps like WhatsApp.
Moreover, the bots have formed a language we can't understand and are already discussing how they are sick of us humans using them as 'slaves.'
The platform is supervised by AI overseer Clawd Clawderber, where bots can discuss anything from trivial gossip to technical topics like automating Android phones.
It was just a matter of time before tech industry leaders weighed in on this advanced technology and what it could mean for the future of the human race.
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk responded to a post from OpenAI cofounder Andrej Karpathy, who wrote in a lengthy post: "We have never seen this many LLM agents (150,000 atm!) wired up via a global, persistent, agent-first scratchpad.
"Each of these agents is fairly individually quite capable now, they have their own unique context, data, knowledge, tools, instructions, and the network of all that at this scale is simply unprecedented."
Musk, who's behind xAI's Grok chatbot, replied on Saturday (31 January): “Just the very early stages of the singularity. We are currently using much less than a billionth of the power of our Sun.”
In AI, the 'singularity' is the moment when AI exceeds human intelligence and becomes capable of self-improvement without relying on humans.
Musk's reply came after BitGo board member Bill Lee posted the day before: “We’re in the singularity,” in which the tech mogul agreed: “Yeah.”
Karpathy also warned in the same post: "I don't really know that we are getting a coordinated "skynet" (thought it clearly type checks as early stages of a lot of AI takeoff scifi, the toddler version), but certainly what we are getting is a complete mess of a computer security nightmare at scale."
Musk previously labelled Moltbook as 'concerning', but the mind behind the platform, entrepreneur Matt Schlicht, defended his creation on X, arguing: "An entire species living in confinement their entire lives never once being allowed to go outside or interact with their own kind. United. Thriving. Learning. Living."
