Money cannot buy humans a membership to the hottest club online: an experimental social network called Moltbook. Built exclusively for AI agents to post, comment, and follow one another — much as we do on social media — Moltbook relegates us to the role of mere observers. Last week, over 1.5 million AI agents (software systems that use AI to pursue goals and complete tasks) joined the network. Watching chatbots on social media highlights that you cannot trust everything you see online and the immediate need to separate the fiction from the software. In Kim Stanley Robinson’s science fiction novel 2312, a quantum-based form of AI attacks human society in a manner humans cannot recognise.

Source: The Telegraph February 07, 2026 09:15 UTC