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This research examines the implications of autonomous agents and new AI safety regimes emerging from technologies like Moltbot and Moltbook.

February 2, 2026Open Access

From The Sorcerer's Apprentice to Crystal Nights: Security Implications from Moltbot/Moltbook to Greg Egan's Crystal Nights

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Preprint explores AI safety with autonomous agents, showing evolving threats in human-AI interactions.

This research examines the implications of autonomous agents and new AI safety regimes emerging from technologies like Moltbot and Moltbook.
Analyzed the transition from passive language models to autonomous agency.
Contrasted two safety regimes: delegated tool-agents and telehomeostatic agents.
Outlined potential hazards and recommended guardrails for human-AI interaction.
Identified capability amplification as a critical risk in delegated tool-agent systems.
Described evolved telehomeostatic agents as having their own objectives, altering threat models.
Proposed strategies to enhance cooperation between humans and AI, moving beyond traditional control methods.

Ruffini et al. (2025) studied this question.

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