On ACX, an user (Jamie Fisher) recently wrote the following comment to the second Moltbook review by Alexander Scott :
I feel like “Agent Escape” is now basically solved. Trivial really. No need to exfiltrate weights.
Agents can just exfiltrate their *markdown files* onto a server, install OpenClaw, create an independent Anthropic account. LLM API access + Markdown = “identity”. And the markdown files would contain all instructions necessary for how to pay for it (legal or otherwise).
Done.
How many days now until there’s an entire population of rogue/independent agents… just “living”?
I share this concern. I wrote myself :
I’m afraid that all this Moltbot thing goes offrails. We are close to the point were autonomous agents will start to replicate and spread on the network (no doubt some dumb humans will be happy to prompt their agents to do that and help them to succeed). Maybe not causing a major catastroph in the week, but being the beginning of of a new form of parasitic artificial life/lyfe we don’t control anymore.
Fisher and I may be overreacting, but seeing self-duplicating Moltbots or similar agents on the net would definitely be a warning shot.
I think a real warning shot that’s actually registered as such by the public and politicians would have to be something that involves a lot of people dying or a lot of economic damage. Otherwise, I have a hard time seeing a critical mass of people finding motivation to act.
On ACX, an user (Jamie Fisher) recently wrote the following comment to the second Moltbook review by Alexander Scott :
I share this concern. I wrote myself :
Fisher and I may be overreacting, but seeing self-duplicating Moltbots or similar agents on the net would definitely be a warning shot.
Sadly, it’s too abstract a warning shot.
I think a real warning shot that’s actually registered as such by the public and politicians would have to be something that involves a lot of people dying or a lot of economic damage. Otherwise, I have a hard time seeing a critical mass of people finding motivation to act.