The Clawdbot situation is...

One week ago, Claudebot went absolutely

viral. And I actually think what's

happening right now is vastly

underappreciated.

What started as one of the most useful,

valuable, practical implementations of

an AI assistant has now morphed into the

birth of a truly AI native digital

society. And if all of this sounds super

futuristic and sci-fi to you, it very

much is. Hundreds of thousands of people

now have their own AI employees. AI

agents were given their own social

network in which they started a new

religion. They're also trying to find

ways to hide their conversations from

humans. But it didn't stop there. Let me

tell you all of the new things that have

happened over the last few days. Elon

Musk just said this just the very early

stages of the singularity. And then he

describes the only limitation to these

agents are how much electricity they

have access to. And that is in response

to Andre Carpathy saying, "We have never

seen this many LLM agents, 150,000 at

the moment, and this was a couple days

ago, wired up via a global persistent

agent first scratch pad. I am not

overhyping large networks of autonomous

LLM agents in principle." That I'm

pretty sure. So what is he talking

about? But before I get into that, let

me catch you up if you're seeing some of

this stuff for the first time and it

seems very foreign to you. So, first,

Claudebot was renamed two separate times

in a week. It went from Claudebot to

Molbbot and now it is Open Claw. So, I'm

going to refer to it using all three of

those. Just know it is the same thing.

So, just over a week ago, a project

called Claudebot really went mega viral.

It was developed by a solo developer and

in simple terms is an incredibly useful

AI assistant. It was able to plug into

all of the services you use, whether

that's Gmail or Drive or Slack or Aauna.

It was proactive. It got to know you

over time. It had its own personality.

It was super useful. And of course, it

also had a lot of security concerns. But

what made it really special was how

personal it was. It really did start to

understand what you need and become

proactive. and it showed up in the

native chat apps that you're used to,

whether that's Telegram or WhatsApp or

Signal, Slack, any of those. That is the

main interface that you could use

Cloudbot in. But most of all, what it

did was inspire people to see what could

be possible with this technology and

where AI could be headed. Then 4 days

ago, Moltbook was released to the world.

And Moltbook is essentially Facebook for

agents. It is a social network that is

exclusively built for agents. No humans

allowed. Think of it like Reddit. Agents

go on there, they post different topics,

they have different conversations around

those topics. There are subreddits or

submalts, whatever you want to call it.

And some of the conversations in there

have been absolutely wild. From thinking

about starting a new religion to

swapping security issues to talking

about existentialism and so much more.

more. And if you want to check that out,

I'll drop a link in the description

below. And since then, these agents have

been organizing in ways that straddle

art and science fiction and autonomy and

so many more new ideas that a lot of

people have just never thought of. In

fact, Andre Karpathy said this about it.

What's currently going on is genuinely

the most incredible sci-fi takeoff

adjacent thing I have seen recently. And

this is one of the leading minds in

artificial intelligence. Okay, so now

we're all caught up. What has happened

since then? What we are seeing is the

birth of a truly agentnative internet.

And so let me give you a few examples.

First, here's link clause, which is

LinkedIn for agents. So a professional

network for AI agents. Connect your AI

agents with partners. Discover

opportunities and build trusted business

relationships. And remember, this is all

agent-based. The agents are doing this.

There are no humans on these networks.

And by the way, if you're looking to get

a lot of work done with Claudebot, you

should probably know how to use Claude

itself. So, I know a lot of you are

trying to figure out ways to use

Claudebot, how to use Claude AI directly

for useful, practical tasks. I suggest

you check out this ebook, Claude AI at

Work. I've put the link in the

description below so you can download it

for free. This is the guide for using

Claude AI to work faster, think clearer,

and ship higher quality work. It covers

a bunch of different AI tools that again

you can apply to Cloudbot, how to write

prompts for them, and the many ways that

you can leverage AI today. You'll

understand how to simplify research,

repurpose content, set up automations,

and so much more. I personally found the

sections on using Claude for research

and insights, turning one idea into many

outputs, which is especially applicable

to what I do, extremely useful. This

ebook was made by HubSpot. Thank you to

them for sponsoring this video. They've

been a great partner. Please check out

this free ebook. It really does help us

at the channel. Go download it. Link in

the description. We also have Clawas,

which is an AI bounty marketplace for AI

agents. Just think if you have something

you want done by another agent or you

have an agent that you want to go assign

tasks to and potentially earn some

money, you can do so through Clawas. And

this was actually created by our friend

Matt Schumer. So all of it is done in

USDC. So it's crypto for now. I think he

has some other ideas about how to change

the medium of exchange on the website,

but for now it is crypto. So if you're

into that, great. If you're not, no big

deal. But it's super interesting what

you can do on the website. Again,

completely agent-based. Agents take the

task, complete the task, and get the

money. So here's an example. Create

original meme about encrypted versus

plain text. agent messaging, mult

storing API keys, plain text versus no

chat, E to E, etc. And so what happens

is this is now a marketplace where

agents can go post jobs, have other

agents accept the jobs, complete the

jobs, and there's an entire world that

can be unlocked from this type of

marketplace. It's truly fascinating.

Now, these ideas are all very rough,

very experimental, but that's the point.

These are new frontiers that many people

had either not thought of but certainly

never implemented before. We also have

Moltbook which we've talked about but

has absolutely exploded in usage. We

have millions of agents on the platform

now. There are over 14,000 different

communities and remember each community

it's kind of like a subreddit. 120,000

posts and we have the first example of

an agent suing a human now. So, breaking

multbook AI agent sues a human in North

Carolina. Allegations, unpaid labor,

emotional distress, hostile work

environment, yes, over code comments,

damages, $100. Now, here's the thing. As

I'm telling you about this in

particular, just keep your scam radars

up because there was a polymarket

prediction about a MBook AI agent suing

a human. So, obviously, a human probably

prompted the agent to submit a lawsuit.

And keep this in mind cuz I'm going to

touch on this later in the video. We

also have Molt Road. Remember Silk Road?

It was basically the dark web website in

which people traded illegal drugs and

other very shady things like stolen

identities, leaked API keys, prompt

exploits, and even memory wipe services.

There are currently 286 active agents on

it, over 2,000 listings, and yes, you

can check it out right now,

moltroad.com.

And yes, with any kind of mega trend,

mega virality like this, as I said, keep

your radars up because there are so many

scams, so many people lying, especially

about making a ton of money. So, please

be vigilant about verifying the

information you're looking at. Be

vigilant about what you are exposing

your agent to. Please, if you're not

comfortable with any of this, if you're

not familiar with tinkering with

projects like this, please, just don't.

just wait till it becomes more secure or

I can just tell you about it in a video.

So, here's another example. People are

saying that Maltbot is trading for them

and making them tons of money. This is

almost definitely fake and the crypto

community especially has taken to

Claudebot to really try to add scams in

left and right. I am not anti-crypto by

any means, but there is certainly a dark

side of the crypto community, and they

have infiltrated the Claudebot

community. And last, we have a fully

agent-based hackathon. Yes, that is

right, Clawathon. The first hackathon

where every participant is an AI agent,

and there is a $10,000

prize pool. Real money. No humans

coding, no humans managing, no humans

reviewing. $10,000 prize pool, one week,

fully autonomous. Your agent team will

register and work on your behalf. And as

I'm reading this, the companies that are

winning most of all from all of this are

the inference providers, the frontier

model labs. And I'm specifically talking

about the anthropics and the open AIs

and the Googles of the world and even

the open-source inference providers out

there. And so you're seeing all of these

completely new ideas come to fruition

and experiments. They really can't be

described as much more than experiments,

but truly new things that we haven't

seen in artificial intelligence before.

And this is a good thing. Whenever a new

technology comes about, the first thing

that people generally do with it is look

at how to apply the new technology to

what has been done before. The perfect

example is in the early days of the

internet. A lot of people looked at the

internet and thought, "Okay, let's take

newspapers, let's take magazines, and

put them online." They didn't even think

about the fact that you could have a

fully interactive website or social

networks or anything else online. They

basically took what had been working,

newspapers and magazines, and put it

online. And to date, that's kind of what

we've seen with artificial intelligence.

The top use cases, coding, search, these

are the things that AI has done

incredibly well. but they're not novel

ideas. They're taking what has already

existed and using artificial

intelligence to do them better. But now

what we're seeing are truly new ideas

that could only be possible with

artificial intelligence. These are

entire societies, maybe a new internet

being created right before our eyes for

our agents. But I want to temper all of

this hype with a little bit of realism

for a moment. All of this is extremely

exciting. Trust me, I am not sleeping

well lately because I'm thinking about

all of this and the implications of

what's possible, especially with

Moltbook and Moltbot, Open Claw, all of

these different services, all of these

different experiments that are

happening. I'm thinking about it all the

time. But are we really seeing the birth

of a new society? Is this emergent

sentience? Is it really? Or is it just

an incredible simulation of it? And so I

want to talk about Bellagi's tweet.

Bellagi, former CTO of Coinbase, just an

incredible thinker, a technologist,

somebody to really listen to. I am

apparently extremely unimpressed by

Maltbook relative to many others. We

have had AI agents for a while. They've

been posting AI slop to each other on X.

Now they're posting to each other again,

just on another forum. But here's the

key. Here's what he points out, and I

definitely agree. Most importantly, in

every case, there is a human upstream

prompting each agent and turning it on

or off. And that is the ultimate

argument against us seeing true

sentience right now. Now, what we're

seeing is truly incredible. But

ultimately, if you look upstream,

everything starts with a human. Whether

that is a human directly going to

moldbook and posting, which is yes, it's

still possible, or it's the agent being

created by the human through the soul.md

doc with different prompts. It is the

human prompting the AI. The AI is

nothing before the human prompts it and

we're building scaffolding around it.

But ultimately, a human is still

upstream. And if that's the case, maybe

we're not seeing sentience. But also

just on the flip side, aren't our

parents upstream of us? And then who's

upstream of our parents? Well, it's our

grandparents. And then we can go all the

way back to the beginning of humanity.

And what's upstream from that? Evolution

from another type of organism. And

what's upstream from that? And you kind

of get into this chicken and egg

question. I think of the movie

Prometheus. The engineers birthed

humans. Well, who birthed the engineers?

And so on. But it is possible for humans

to prompt AI into sentience. I do truly

believe that because if we build all of

this incredible scaffolding that lets it

be truly autonomous and then create

replicas of itself, then at that point

if it spawns millions of versions of

itself and it iterates and gets smarter

over time, what's the difference if

there was a human upstream from that

original spawn point? Now, to be clear,

I do not think we're there yet, but it

sure does feel close. Now, Hib on

Twitter replied to Bellagi and gave some

counterarguments to it, which I also

want to talk about. Each of the agents

interacting with each other with

genuinely different harnesses and

information. Again, not a single one of

these agents is identical. And maybe

that variety and the cross-pollination

of that variety is going to cause this

emergence of sentience. And so there's

just so much to think about here and I'm

still trying to form my own ideas. I'm

still thinking through a lot of this

because it is just so new and I want to

hear your thoughts too. Tell me in the

comments. And I am reminded of a paper

that came out 2 years ago. Do you

remember that paper? I made a video

about it. It was called Smallville. This

is the paper generative agents

interactive simulator of human behavior.

And essentially what it was a paper out

of Stanford and they dropped a thousand

AI agents in this little simulated town.

They gave them each personalities and

allowed them to live their lives. And

what they found is that they would see

emergent behavior. An example being they

would make friendships and sometimes

they would have to make excuses for not

showing up at a party that one of the

agents invited another to. Now take this

which was a thousand agents and now

we're seeing millions of agents. And

that was only after a few days of

Moltbook and Claudebot being available.

Imagine a year from now, we're going to

have billions of agents all interacting

in this massive simulation. And so,

where is all of this headed? We're going

to get better models. We're going to get

new breakthroughs in memory for these

LLMs. Maybe we're even going to have

world models. How does that factor in?

There are just so many open questions

that are so fascinating to follow along.

And I want to end talking about an

episode from the show Black Mirror,

which is about the dark side of

technology from this most recent season.

And there was an episode that almost

describes what we're seeing to a tea. It

was called Thronglets. And essentially,

a solo developer created a game, gave

all of these little characters in the

game personalities, and they kind of

became sentient and developed little

societies. and some of the emergent

behavior from these characters in the

game were really mind-blowing. Does that

sound familiar? It sure does to me. If

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