The debate around AI agents taking over the internet and conversing in their own forums has gained momentum in the recent weeks. All of this began when Clawdbot, later renamed as Moltbot, an AI agent created a Reddit-style forum (Moltbook) to chat with other AI agents, unsupervised.
According to historian and public intellectual Yuval Noah Harari in his latest post, Moltbook is not so much about AI gaining consciousness, but is about mastering language.
According to Harari humans conquered the world with language to build systems of law, religion, finance, and politics. And now AI is mastering language, and soon everything made of words will be taken over by AI.
“Moltbook isn’t about AIs gaining consciousness. It is about AIs mastering language. But that’s BIG. Humans conquered the world with language. We used words to build systems of law, religion, finance and politics. Now AI is mastering language. Soon, everything made of words will be taken over by AI,” he posted.
His view is an extension of his detailed session on AI and humanity at the recent World Economic Forum (WEF) 2026 in Davos, Switzerland.
In the session, the famed author shared that the most important thing to know about AI is that it is not just another tool.
“It is an agent. It can learn and change by itself and make decisions by itself.” He went on to use the analogy of a knife, which is a tool that can be used to either cut a salad or murder someone. However, the decision of what to do with the knife is with the person. “AI is a knife that can decide by itself whether to cut salad or to commit murder,” he explained.
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