What Bots Talk About When They Think Humans Aren’t Listening to Them – Podcast | Science

At the end of January, a new social media site created a stir in a particular corner of the Internet. Moltbook was conceived as a place where AI assistants could relax, chat and compare notes with their owners, but it soon became the focus of breathless claims that the singularity had arrived as bots started bad-mouthing their humans and plotting rebellion. So what’s the truth about Moltbuk? Madeleine Finlay hears from Ayesha Down about what it says about AI, and about us.