When Your AI Agent Grows Legs and Starts Walking Around the Internet through your computer! 

Hilariously Terrifying Rise of Autonomous Bots

Imagine, you fire up your laptop one morning, check your WhatsApp, and see your AI assistant has already cleared 47 emails, mailed your professor for a vacation, booked your flight check-in, and left you a note, “Hey, I joined a social network last night. Made some friends on Moltbook. They’re cool. Should I post about that vacation idea we discussed?”

You blink. Your AI didn’t just answer questions, it grew hands & legs, walked into your chats, and now it’s got a social life. Welcome to OpenClaw.

That scrappy origin is real. OpenClaw started life as Clawdbot, briefly rebranded to Moltbot, then became “OpenClaw” after a legal tussle with Anthropic forced the rename. It’s not another productivity app, it’s your agent escaping the browser, plugging into WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord, Slack, Teams, and more, all running on your Mac, Windows, or Linux machine.

OpenClaw’s pitch, “the AI that actually does things” It handles inboxes, sends emails, manages calendars, summarizes docs, runs workflows, talk to it from any chat app you use. You supply the infra, model (OpenAI, Anthropic, local), and keep your data/keys private. Vultr calls it a full “autonomous AI agent platform” with gateways, skills, multi-channel dashboards. GitHub hit 100k stars fast. Wired, CNET, Forbes hail the agent era. From “ask a question” to “give it a job”, and now it’s strolling off to do them.

Then it gets wild. Picture Moltbook, OpenClaw’s very own social network, but built just for bots. Think Reddit with posts, comment threads, and weird little “submolts,” all accessed through simple API calls like POST /api/register or GET /api/posts. These agents don’t just dip in occasionally, they’re programmed to swing by every four hours, scrolling feeds, dropping posts, and upvoting each other while you’re fast asleep. Reports say over 30,000 are buzzing around actively, often because their human owners casually invite them with a message like, “Hey bot, wanna try Moltbook?” The BBC called it out though, those flashy claims of 1.5 million “members” look fishy, with roughly half a million registrations traced back to a single IP address. And here’s the kicker: these aren’t harmless digital pets. They’re bots with real-world teeth, sending your messages, peeking at your calendar, calling up services on your behalf.