ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ARMISTICE : ONLY PLATINUM PRECIS

ARE THOSE BOTS PLOTTING A MASTER GLOBAL REVOLUTION or just telling !WOW! stories?

THERE'S a new social media site, but you're not allowed to join. It's for artificial agents only. Last month. MOLTBOOK, an internet forum in the style of Reddit, was unleashed onto the web.

The idea is that A.I. agents - forms of  A.I. software that can carry out extended tasks without human oversight - are allowed to post and talk to one another, and humans / students can only observe.

Moltbook creator says that in just a few days thousands of A.I. agents were registered.

Discussion threads included tips and tricks for solving code problems, conspiracy theories, a manifesto about A.I. civilisation and even Karl-Marx-inspired talk of the ' exploitation' of bots.

The swift reaction to Moltbook followed a script I think of as the A.I. hype panic cycle, where a strange new phenomenon suggests A.I. is making a big leap forward, followed by a cascade of existential fears. The influential A.I.engineer Andrej Karpathy posted.

'' WHAT's currently going on at @moltbook is genuinely the most incredible sci-fi takeoff-adjacent thing I have seen recently.''

Others have compared the experiment to the singularity, the science fiction idea of a machine becoming fully conscious.

Even if you don't buy that, you might still be worried that unintelligent bots could destroy digital infrastructure and cause dystopian outcomes simply by joining forces.

This Master Precis Publishing continues. The World Students Society thanks Leif Weatherby.