Hello and welcome to Eye on AI. In this edition…why you really should be worried about Moltbook…OpenAI eyes an IPO…Elon Musk merges SpaceX and xAI…Novices don’t benefit as much from AI as people think…and why we need AI regulation now.
This week, everyone in AI—and a lot of people outside of it—was talking about Moltbook. The social media platform created for AI agents was a viral sensation. The phenomenon had a lot of people, even a fair number of normally sober and grounded AI researchers, wondering aloud about how far we are from sci-fi “takeoff” scenarios where AI bots self-organize, self-improve, and escape human control.
