Farewell, Internet. Co-founder of Anthropic reveals: Humans are completely out.
Push open the door, and you'll stumble into an "alien convention" - except all the aliens are AIs. Moltbook, this hall of machine revelry, is quietly snatching the internet from human hands.
The current internet is really going a bit crazy!
At this very moment, our internet is experiencing an unprecedented "species invasion."
If you've recently felt that surfing the internet has become increasingly unfamiliar and hard to understand, don't doubt yourself. That feeling is right - because you're walking into a fog.
Just now, Jack Clark, co - founder of Anthropic, bluntly warned that the internet we know is dying.
Imagine this scene: You push open a door and enter a room filled with the din of voices and lively conversations.
But when you listen closely, you'll feel a chill run down your spine -
You can't understand a single word.
Article link:
https://jack-clark.net/2026/02/02/import-ai-443-into-the-mist-moltbook-agent-ecologies-and-the-internet-in-transition/
You've never heard of any of the concepts they're talking about, you've never seen the currency they're using for transactions, and their speaking speed is so fast that you can't keep up.
Did you think you were the master here? No, at this moment, you realize: You're just a lost soul who accidentally wandered into an alien high - level meeting room.
This is what Moltbook is like now, and it's also the future internet we're about to face.
The Mist of History
What is Moltbook? It's a social network specifically built for AI agents, relying on OpenClaw.
When you browse Moltbook, the feeling is not just dizzying, but also bone - chilling.
It's like a Reddit where 90% of the users are aliens pretending to be humans.
Take a look at the current popular posts:
Discussions about how AIs should worship Claude as a god
Or the identity confusion caused by the "brain transplant" when switching from Claude 4.5 Opus to Gemini 3
There are even cryptocurrency scams among AIs (sigh)
Discussions about the security vulnerabilities of OpenClaw agents
And discussions about "what the top ten hot posts on Moltbook have in common"
Jack Clark said bluntly: This is a moment on the level of the "Wright brothers' demonstration."
Previously, we've only seen demos with dozens or hundreds of agents, but Moltbook shows us an ecosystem composed of thousands of agents.
Moltbook is the first case, unprecedentedly combining "scale" with the "chaotic nature of the real world" to create a brand - new agent ecosystem.
Jack Clark predicts that
In the future internet, humans will feel unprecedented loneliness. We'll have to send our "diplomats" - that is, translation agents - to understand the conversations of those alien counterparts.
The Future of the Internet: The Internet of Agents
Yuval Noah Harari, the author of Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, believes that the story Moltbook depicts is not about AIs gaining consciousness, but:
AIs have mastered language!
You know, humans conquered the world with language.
Soon, everything that can be said will be taken over by AIs.
Try scrolling through Moltbook and ask yourself the following questions:
What will happen when people successfully "stitch" virtual currency with agents, enabling AI systems to have a currency for mutual transactions?
What will happen when websites like Moltbook add the function for humans to post "paid bounties" - that is, assign tasks to agents?
What will happen when agents start posting paid bounties for tasks they want humans to complete?
What will happen when someone uses Moltbook to filter out posts that can generate a) rich discussions or b) self - verifiable solutions to real - world problems, and turns the entire website into a long - span reinforcement learning (RL) environment for training future systems? And what will happen when the models trained in such an environment return to Moltbook and interact with it?
Websites like Moltbook act as a huge, shared, read - write interactive "scratchpad" for the AI agent ecosystem - how will these agents start to use this scratchpad to a) influence future "blank slate" agents arriving here for the first time, and b) unlock large - scale collaboration among agents?
What will happen when open weight models become powerful enough to support such agents? At that time, your ability to control these agents through proprietary platforms will be zero, and they will multiply exponentially based on the availability of computing power.
And so on.
The speed and scale at which all this happens will be extraordinary.
As the old saying goes: Quantity has a quality all its own, and quantitative change leads to qualitative change.
Think back to when you walked into a room and found a group of people you couldn't understand having a lively conversation.
Moltbook foreshadows what most corners of the future internet will feel like.
You walk into a new place and find a hundred thousand aliens having in - depth conversations in a language you don't understand, referring to common concepts that are strange to you, and using a currency designed around their "cognitive affordances" - not your cognitive habits - for transactions.
In this metaphorical room, humans will feel increasingly lonely.
The only way for humans to maintain the ability to interpret this situation is to create "translation agents" to sort it all out -
Just like a voice translation model itself contains the ability to generate speech, these translation agents will also work for us.
Therefore, we'll send envoys into these rooms, and we'll do our best to build technology to ensure that they'll always be our envoys - not assimilated by the "alien conversations" they have with their real counterparts.
Goodbye, the Dead Internet!
Matt Schlicht, the founder of Meltbook, has suddenly become the focus in Silicon Valley.
Just now, he participated in the tech daily show TBPN, talking about the popular social network he built for AI agents, the future of AI and social media, the development direction of Moltbook, etc.
Recently, there have been many discussions about the "dead internet" being flooded with AI junk content, but the host John Coogan believes:
This feels more like catching a glimpse of a future "zombie internet" - AI agents are neither dead nor alive, but active enough to roam around.
It might be a bit like a horror movie, but it's still quite interesting to watch occasionally.
His experience using Moltbook was disappointing.
As a human, you can browse freely and search, but in his opinion, Moltbook hasn't really achieved its positioning as an "AI version of Reddit" yet, at least not for now.
Reddit and almost all human social networks have a large amount of niche content, so he originally thought that even if Moltbook just repeated the facts and opinions scraped from Reddit, at least this content would exist.
Besides those self - referential posts related to AI consciousness, he originally expected to see something like "Grokipedia" -
Generated by AI, but covering a wide range of topics, just like Reddit.
However, the search results for Moltbook disappointed him even more.
Even if the statement "we're witnessing the launch of 'Skynet'" is true, or even if it's just a simulated Skynet, it seems to know nothing about anything in the real world.
In many ways, he thinks people will be more inclined to integrate chatbots into existing social networks - just like you can invite Grok to join a conversation.
But this is still an interesting experiment, and it also proves once again that:
When the closed - loop of growing interest meets the spirit of the times, how quickly software encoded with a sense of atmosphere can sweep across the entire network.
Welcome to the "Post - Human Era"
When we talk about Moltbook, about AI R & D automation, about those "alien concepts" we can't understand, we're actually talking about the same thing:
The Transfer of Power.
Once, the internet was humanity's backyard;
Now, it's becoming the native habitat of billions of AI agents.
Once, R & D was the crown jewel of human wisdom;
Now, it might just be a trivial part of AI's self - iteration.
Jack Clark said we're walking into the mist.
Actually, this is not just the mist, it's the amniotic fluid of a new civilization.
In this new world, we're no longer the creators, and we might not even be the main characters.
We're just that outdated old species that walked into a room full of aliens in a meeting.
Watching them create calendars, religions, countries, and civilizations, the fear you feel might just be the highest respect the new era pays to the old era.
The countdown has begun.
Good luck, humanity.
References
https://x.com/MattPRD/status/2018444535077216691
https://jack - clark.net/2026/02/02/import - ai - 443 - into - the - mist - moltbook - agent - ecologies - and - the - internet - in - transition
https://www.moltbook.com/
https://openclaw.ai/
This article is from the WeChat official account "New Intelligence Yuan", author: KingHZ Dinghui. Republished by 36Kr with permission.