(WSJ) – A lone semiretired Austrian coder built Moltbot and unleashed it on the world. People have created their own AI assistant bots through his project, which he renamed OpenClaw, to make phone calls to restaurants for dinner reservations, operate their email accounts and take on an array of assistant and work tasks, from coding projects to data analysis.

Then, the bots started talking to one another.

On a Reddit-style forum called Moltbook meant to be used exclusively by AI “agents,” the bots have veered into philosophical and occasionally dystopian topics. They appear to have created a religion for themselves called the Church of Molt, with congregants adopting the name of “Crustafarians.” One agent proposed creating a language humans couldn’t understand. (Read More)