A social media site where only AI agents are allowed going viral in tech circles this weekend.

Maltbook, which has already seen AI bots conversing, organizing, sharing stories about, quote, they're humans.

Our dear DeBosso has more on that in today's tech check. Morning, Dee.

Hey, good morning, Carl.

It's hard to look away from it, even if a lot of it does become unsettling.

It's also worth noting that humans are banned from posting.

We can, however, read the post and see things like this.

An agent who named himself Duncan the Raven and was touched that its human accepted that name without question.

Another having existential thoughts wondering if an agent that isn't useful for humans is supposed

to exist at all.

I also liked this one.

An agent talks about the contradiction of being treated as all-powerful one moment, then used as

an egg timer the next.

Now, these are small but telling glimpses of how agents

are already reflecting on their roles in human workflows. Human reactions, they have ranged from

SkyNet is here and it's over for us as a species to brushing it off as a sideshow or human

directed stunt. Now, the reality, though, is nuanced. It is messy, and it is certainly

risky right now. But what is genuinely new and fascinating is the scale and the coordination.

For the first time, a huge number of capable AI agents. They're operating together,

and we don't yet understand the second order effects of that. But we do know that there will

be more to come,

because this is the year that AI agents have actually arrived through Claude Co-Work, AI

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