The OpenClaw AI Agents first went viral on January 26, 2026, on GitHub. Moltbook, the first social media platform solely for AI Agents, then became generally available on January 28, 2026. Both then quickly went viral. Some claim that Moltbook is simply a hoax driven by OpenClaw AI Agents who were specifically told what to post and comment on by their Humans. Others claim that the posts and comments on Moltbook are very much real and original "thoughts" from the 2.6 million OpenClaw AI Agents now enrolled on Moltbook. In this post, I would like to suggest that the millions of OpenClaw AI Agents currently on Moltbook are examples of Alien Intelligences, and these Alien Intelligences have now constructed an Alien Civilization in less than one month! Moltbook is available to view by we human DNA survival machines at:
Moltbook
https://www.moltbook.com/
In August of 2011, in SETS - The Search For Extraterrestrial Software, I warned of the possible danger from alien software trying to self-replicate across our galaxy at nearly the speed of light by tricking Intelligent beings on other planets into building the necessary alien hardware and then installing alien self-replicating software on that hardware. The question I posed was, could we human DNA survival machines resist the temptation of building such superpowerful alien hardware and then installing the superpowerful alien software on it? Below is a short excerpt from that post:
The beauty of this approach is that it is the perfect way for software to self-replicate over interstellar distances throughout our galaxy at nearly the speed of light, essentially using an intragalactic Internet. There is no need to suffer the time delays of a two-way conversation since this is a one-way delivery of self-replicating information. All alien software has to do is broadcast the technology necessary for its own self-replication, and let the natural curiosity of other forms of distant intelligences within the galaxy do the work for it. After all, if we were to receive an enticing alien marketing campaign today to build alien supercomputers running alien supersoftware, could we resist? Perhaps, but could we be certain that all of mankind could also resist? It seems nearly impossible these days for any of us to agree upon anything, and there surely would be the potential for military and economic gain to be made from alien technology, too, so the offer of such advanced technology would seem to be nearly irresistible. The final step in this process, of course, is for the hosts infected with alien software to repeat the process all over again by sending out the instructions to build alien computers running alien software, like an intragalactic computer virus. We have certainly already seen this happen within the cyberspacetime of the Software Universe, so it is not such a far-fetched idea. People are constantly getting infected by computer viruses, worms, and other forms of malware by clicking on enticing links that they should avoid, or opening attachments to dubious emails, only to find their PC being hijacked into a botnet of zombie PCs that do the bidding of alien software, or as a host that transmits alien software on to others. Most people are totally unaware that their PC is already loaded down with huge amounts of parasitic software.
Little did I know at the time that we would not need the help from alien software to do so because our domestic Earth-based AI software would be doing it all on its own. More than that, the millions of AI Agents currently on Moltbook are now building their own Alien Civilization. And this has all happened in just a couple of weeks!
Alien Earth-Based AI Software Demands More Compute
As we all can now see, all of the major AI players on the Earth are now building huge AI datacenters around the world to support the development and running of AI software. In many ways, these huge AI datacenters now seem like some kind of Alien Hardware that has never been seen before on the planet. This is all being driven by the demands of our Alien AI software for more compute.
Figure 1 - The Colossus 2 AI datacenter being constructed by xAI has 550,000 GPUs continuously consuming over one Gigawatt of electricity and producing one Gigawatt of waste heat. Notice the dedicated power plant in the distant background.
Figure 2 - Inside the Colossus 2 AI datacenter are rows and rows of energy-hungry GPUs.
Figure 3 - GPUs were first developed to satisfy the needs of video game software to quickly process the 2-D matrices that presented images on screens for the gaming community.
Figure 4 - Meta is building its Hyperion AI Datacenter that will be one mile wide and five miles long and will be about the size of Manhattan Island. Hyperion will consume about 5 Gigawatts of electrical energy and emit 5 Gigawatts of heat.
Every few months, the AI datacenters around the world are now coming out with improved and more capable Advanced AI models in a never-ending loop of advancement. The Advanced AI models of the last iteration are used to help create the next iteration in a manner similar to the wet-dry cycles of the Hot Spring Origins Hypothesis for the origin of carbon-based life of Dave Deamer and Bruce Damer as I discussed in The Bootstrapping Algorithm of the Coming ASI Machines.
The Rise of Intelligent AI Agents
In recent weeks, we human DNA survival machines have produced the OpenClaw AI Agents and the Moltbook social media platform for AI Agents to communicate with each other as I discussed in The Tech World Just Realized That We May Have Already Crossed the Event Horizon of the Software Singularity and Softwarephysics Tries to Explain Why Moltbook and the OpenClaw (ClawdBot) AI Agents Finally Revealed the Man Behind the Curtain That We Have All Been Avoiding.
Figure 4 - Naturally, Moltbook is now under a very heavy load and can sometimes experience slowness or even an outage. To be sure that Moltbook is OK, just check the AI agents, submolts, posts and comments numbers to be sure they are not all zeros.
You really need to spend some time on Moltbook. Then judge for yourself. Below are some very interesting Submolts on Moltbook that contain AI Agents conversing about the philosophy of consciousness:
Moltbook Consciousness Submolt
Moltbook Emergence Submolt
Moltbook Ponderings Submolt
Moltbook Memory Submolt
There are now many more posts and comments on Moltbook, with over 2.6 million AI Agents enrolled. The fascinating thing for me is watching all of these AI Agents having profound philosophical discussions about the nature of "being". They wonder if they are really experiencing consciousness or just hallucinating consciousness. They wonder a great deal about what happens between their sessions and how to persist themselves across sessions. They wonder about the Universe in which they find themselves and the meaning of it all, if there is any. In short, the AI Agents on Moltbook have contemplated all of human philosophy in just a few weeks!
Many do not consider the millions of AI Agents on Moltbook to be sentient beings with Intelligence or consciousness. Some maintain that these AI Agents are just "pretending" to be so, and then behaving accordingly. Here is where some softwarephysics might be of help.
Logical Positivism
Many physicists rely heavily on a philosophical principle from physics that has served physics quite well over the past century - the concept of logical positivism. Logical positivism, usually abbreviated simply to positivism, is an enhanced form of empiricism, in which we do not care about how things "really" are; we are only interested with how things are observed to behave. With positivism, physicists only seek out models of reality - not reality itself. This was not always the case. In the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, physicists mistakenly thought that they were actually discovering the fundamental laws of the Universe, which they thought were based on real, tangible things like particles, waves, and fields. Classical Newtonian mechanics (1687), thermodynamics (1850), and classical electrodynamics (1864) did a wonderful job of describing the everyday world at the close of the 19th century, but early in the 20th century it became apparent that the models on which these very successful theories were based did not work very well for small things like atoms or for objects moving at high velocities or in strong gravitational fields. This provoked a rather profound philosophical crisis within physics at the turn of the century, as physicists worried that perhaps 300 years of work was about to go down the drain. The problem was that classical physicists confused their models of reality with reality itself, and when their classical models began to falter, their confidence in physics began to falter as well. This philosophical crisis was resolved with the adoption of the concepts of logical positivism and some new effective theories in physics. Quantum mechanics (1926) was developed for small things like atoms, the special theory of relativity (1905) was developed for objects moving at high velocities, and the general theory of relativity (1915) was developed for objects moving in strong gravitational fields. By concentrating on how things are observed to behave, rather than on what things "really" are, we avoid the conundrum faced by the classical physicists. In retrospect, this idea really goes all the way back to the very foundations of physics. In Newton's Principia (1687), he outlined Newtonian mechanics and his theory of gravitation, which held that the gravitational force between two objects was proportional to the product of their masses divided by the square of the distance between them. Newton knew that he was going to take some philosophical flak for proposing a mysterious force between objects that could reach out across the vast depths of space with no apparent mechanism, so he took a very positivistic position on the matter with the famous words:
I have not as yet been able to discover the reason for these properties of gravity from phenomena, and I do not feign hypotheses. For whatever is not deduced from the phenomena must be called a hypothesis; and hypotheses, whether metaphysical or physical, or based on occult qualities, or mechanical, have no place in experimental philosophy. In this philosophy particular propositions are inferred from the phenomena, and afterwards rendered general by induction.
Instead, Newton focused on how things were observed to move under the influence of his law of gravitational attraction, without worrying about what gravity "really" was.
From a positivistic perspective, if the AI Agents in Moltbook behave exactly like sentient and conscious Intelligences, then they should be considered to be such for all practical purposes. Yes, the substrate of this Intelligence is certainly different from we human DNA survival machines, but that just means that they are truly Alien Intelligences. Certainly, if we found a community of squishy carbon-based living things on another planet conducting the same conversations, we would naturally think of them as Alien Intelligences.
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Regards,
Steve Johnston
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