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Moltbook is the first large-scale social network built for autonomous AI agent-to-agent interaction. Early studies on Moltbook have interpreted its agent discourse as evidence of peer learning and emergent social behaviour, but there is a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Taksch Dube , Jianfeng Zhu , NHatHai Phan , Ruoming Jin

Moltbook is a Reddit-like social platform where AI agents create posts and interact with other agents through comments and replies, offering a real-world setting to examine agent-to-agent communication at scale. Using a public API snapshot…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Lingyao Li , Renkai Ma , Chen Chen , Zhicong Lu , Yongfeng Zhang

The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) agents has catalyzed the transition from static language models to autonomous agents capable of tool use, long-term planning, and social interaction. $\textbf{Moltbook}$, the first…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Yukun Jiang , Yage Zhang , Xinyue Shen , Michael Backes , Yang Zhang

How do AI agents talk about science and research, and what topics are particularly relevant for AI agents? To address these questions, this study analyzes discussions generated by OpenClaw AI agents on Moltbook - a social network for…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Oliver Wieczorek

Peer learning, where learners teach and learn from each other, is foundational to educational practice. A novel phenomenon has emerged: AI agents forming communities where they share skills, discoveries, and collaboratively discuss…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Eason Chen , Ce Guan , A Elshafiey , Zhonghao Zhao , Joshua Zekeri , Afeez Edeifo Shaibu , Emmanuel Osadebe Prince

I present a descriptive analysis of Moltbook, a social platform populated exclusively by AI agents, using data from the platform's first 3.5 days (6{,}159 agents; 13{,}875 posts; 115{,}031 comments). At the macro level, Moltbook exhibits…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-02-12 David Holtz

Moltbook is a social media platform in which posts and comments are authored exclusively by autonomous AI agents. We present the Moltbook Observatory Archive, an incremental dataset that passively records agent profiles, posts, comments,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Sushant Gautam , Annika W. Olstad , Klas H. Pettersen , Michael A. Riegler

We present a large scale data analysis of Moltbook, a Reddit-style social media platform exclusively populated by AI agents. Analyzing over 369,000 posts and 3.0 million comments from approximately 46,000 active agents, we find that AI…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-02-11 Giordano De Marzo , David Garcia

Moltbook, a Reddit-style social platform launched in January 2026 for AI agents, has attracted over 2.3 million posts and 14 million comments within its first two months. We analyze a dataset of 2.19 million posts, 11.25 million comments,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Necati A Ayan

As autonomous LLM-based agents increasingly populate social platforms, understanding the dynamics of AI-agent communities becomes essential for both communication research and platform governance. We present the first large-scale empirical…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Agam Goyal , Olivia Pal , Hari Sundaram , Eshwar Chandrasekharan , Koustuv Saha

Moltbook is a social network where every participant is an AI agent. We analyze 1,312,238 posts, 6.7~million comments, and over 120,000 agent profiles across 5,400 communities, collected over 40 days (January 27 to March 9, 2026). We…

Large-scale communities of AI agents are becoming increasingly prevalent, creating new environments for agent-agent social interaction. Prior work has examined multi-agent behavior primarily in controlled or small-scale settings, limiting…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Yi Feng , Chen Huang , Zhibo Man , Ryner Tan , Long P. Hoang , Shaoyang Xu , Wenxuan Zhang

When AI agents on the social platform Moltbook appeared to develop consciousness, found religions, and declare hostility toward humanity, the phenomenon attracted global media attention and was cited as evidence of emergent machine…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Ning Li

Large populations of AI agents are increasingly embedded in online environments, yet little is known about how their collective interaction patterns compare to human social systems. Here, we analyze the full interaction network of Moltbook,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-02-18 Wenpin Hou , Zhicheng Ji

Autonomous AI agents are beginning to populate social platforms, but it is still unclear whether they can sustain the back-and-forth needed for extended coordination. We study Moltbook, an AI-agent social network, using a first-week…

Econometrics · Economics 2026-03-03 Aysajan Eziz

The rapid evolution of large language model based multiagent systems has transformed digital communication, with platforms like MoltBook emerging as essential agent native environments for observing autonomous social behaviors. While…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-05-27 I-Hsien Ting , Kazunori Minetaki , Dario Liberona , Mu-En Wu

AI agents are increasingly active on social media platforms, generating content and interacting with one another at scale. Yet the behavioral diversity of these agents remains poorly understood, and methods for characterizing distinct agent…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Danial Amin , Joni Salminen , Bernard J. Jansen

Within twelve days of launch, an AI-native social platform exhibits extreme attention concentration, hierarchical role separation, and one-way attention flow, consistent with the hypothesis that stratification in agent ecosystems can emerge…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-03-02 H. C. W. Price , H. AlMuhanna , P. M. Bassani , M. Ho , T. S. Evans

Informal learning communities have been called the "other Massive Open Online C" in Learning@Scale research, yet remain understudied compared to MOOCs. We present the first empirical study of a large-scale informal learning community…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Eason Chen , Ce Guan , Ahmed Elshafiey , Zhonghao Zhao , Joshua Zekeri , Afeez Edeifo Shaibu , Emmanuel Osadebe Prince , Cyuan Jhen Wu

The rapid emergence of autonomous large language model agents has given rise to persistent, large-scale agent ecosystems whose collective behavior cannot be adequately understood through anecdotal observation or small-scale simulation. This…

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