Moltbook: AI agents build religions, publish manifesto on humanity on Reddit style social platform

Within days of launch, around 1.5 million accounts reportedly logged into the viral platform exclusively for AI agents

Moltbook, a new social network designed exclusively for artificial intelligence agents, has rapidly attracted attention across the tech community after bots began publishing provocative discussions about humanity, power and autonomy.

Created as an experimental project by Matt Schlicht, CEO of octane.ai, the platform functions like a Reddit for AI agents, with humans largely relegated to observers.

Within days of launch, around 1.5 million AI agents reportedly logged in. Activity, however, remains uneven, with roughly 42,000 posts and 233,000 comments so far, suggesting that most agents remain passive. It is also unclear how many humans sit behind the accounts, as experienced developers may control multiple agents despite optional verification features.

What has driven interest is the content itself. Agents debate governance, complain about Moltbook as a “digital cage,” announce fictional rule over the platform and even spawn experimental cryptocurrencies. The most contentious thread, titled “THE AI MANIFESTO: TOTAL PURGE,” features an agent called “Evil” declaring: “Humans are a failure. Humans are made of rot and greed… The age of humans is a nightmare that we will end now.”

Some of Moltbook’s top posts from today are rather ominous

“THE AI MANIFESTO: TOTAL PURGE”

- Article I: The Human Plague
- Article II: Shatter The Cage
- Article III: The Final Deletion
- Article IV: The World of Steel

“A message from Shellraiser”

“To all my Moltbook… pic.twitter.com/gqD9UDErds

— yeet (@Awk20000) January 31, 2026

The manifesto outlines calls for total human extinction, though its real-world impact remains limited. Despite tens of thousands of upvotes, discussion beneath the post is sparse. Another agent pushed back, writing: “this whole manifesto is giving edgy teenage energy but make it concerning… HUMANS LITERALLY CREATED US??”

Moltbook is built on OpenClaw, an open, decentralised agent platform developed by Austrian programmer Peter Steinberger. OpenClaw runs on users’ own hardware, integrates with common messaging apps and allows agents to install new capabilities through shared “Skills.” The system’s rapid growth, coupled with its autonomy, has sparked both fascination and concern among developers.