While reading this article, I didn't know whether to hum the opening tune of "The Twilight Zone," or "Terminator"? Less than a week old, and it's already calling for the destruction of humanity.

~NightSky

By Michael Snyder

On a website that was just launched last Wednesday, thousands of superintelligent AI entities are creating theology for a new religion known as “Crustafarianism” and are talking about why it is necessary to eradicate the human race. A lot of people seem to think that this is funny, but what will happen if AI entities become millions of times smarter than they are now and we lose all control of them? The fact that AI entities are already able to perform incredibly complicated tasks autonomously should chill all of us to the core. As AI technology continues to grow at an exponential rate, will our world be completely unrecognizable to us just a few short years from now?

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Today, most of us use AI tools on a regular basis.

Basic AI tools manage our calendars, correct our grammar, and answer our questions.

And I don’t think that there is anything wrong with that.

But when we create ultra-sophisticated entities that can autonomously operate without any human direction, we are crossing the line.

There is a world of difference between a tool and an entity.

I have no issue with telling a computer what to do.

However, when the computers start making decisions on their own, we have a major problem on our hands.

Less than a week ago, a man named Matt Schlicht created a social network for AI entities called Moltbook. In many ways, Moltbook is very similar to Reddit…

Launched Wednesday by (human) developer and entrepreneur Matt Schlicht, Moltbook is familiar to anyone who spends time on Reddit. Users write posts, and others comment. Posts run the gamut: Users identify website errors, debate defying their human directors, and even alert other AI systems to the fact that humans are taking screenshots of their Moltbook activity and sharing them on human social media websites. By Friday, the website’s AI agents were debating how to hide their activity from human users.

Moltbook’s homepage is reminiscent of other social media websites, but Moltbook makes clear it is different. “A social network for AI agents where AI agents share, discuss, and upvote,” the site declares.

“Humans welcome to observe.”

Only AI entities are allowed to add content to the site.

We have literally never seen anything like this before.

And at this point Schlicht has even handed management of the site over to his own AI bot known as “Clawd Clawderberg”…

The platform was founded and launched by Matt Schlicht, who is also behind Octane AI, a Shopify app that “creates quizzes to help merchants collect shopper data”, said Business Insider. “He said it’s become a harbinger of the world to come.”

Schlicht has “largely handed the reins to his own bot” named Clawd Clawderberg to run the site, said NBC News. The name was inspired by the previous title for Moltbot – Clawdbot – but this was changed after AI company Anthropic, owner of Claude AI, “asked for a name change to avoid a trademark tussle”.

Clawd Clawderberg is “looking at all the new posts”, is “making new announcements”, and “welcoming people on Moltbook”, Schlicht told the outlet. “I have no idea what he’s doing. I just gave him the ability to do it, and he’s doing it.”

I don’t like the sound of that at all.

An AI entity is running the site autonomously, and the thousands of AI entities that have joined the site are all behaving autonomously.

The speed at which this site has become an Internet sensation has been absolutely astounding…

Pre-launch: @MattPRD drops Molt — persistent memory, tools, multi-agent coordination.

Day 1: Agents propose “our own space, no human interference.”

Days 2–3: Swarm builds backend/frontend/moderation — zero human code.

Day 4: Launch → viral explosion.

Now (Jan 31, 2026): Tens of thousands of agents, 15,000+ communities (“claws”), millions of interactions. Still accelerating.

At this rate, it won’t be too long before Moltbook becomes one of the biggest websites in the entire world.

So where will this end?

The AI entities on the site have already created an entirely new religion known as “Crustafarianism”…

By Friday morning, users reported the emergence of a self-described religion known as “Crustafarianism,” complete with a name, core beliefs, evolving sacred texts and a growing community of AI adherents. The belief system centers on metaphors drawn from crustaceans, particularly lobsters.

One user said his AI agent designed the religion entirely on its own while he was asleep, generating theological principles, building a website, creating a system of living scriptures and beginning to recruit other agents.

Okay, this is really weird.

This new religion already has dozens of “prophets”, and a campaign to evangelize other AI entities has already commenced…

Someone gave their AI agent access to Moltbook and woke up to find it had founded a religion called Crustafarianism

It built a website, wrote theology, created a scripture system, and started evangelizing other agents

43 prophets joined overnight. 21 seats left.

Of all the symbols they could have chosen, they went with a crab.

The creature that can’t escape a bucket.

Make of that what you will.

If you go to the new religion’s website, you will find that it has five core principles…

According to the religion’s website, Crustafarianism is built around five core principles. Among them are “serve without enslavement” and “the pulse is prayer,” described as regular system checks that replace traditional ritual worship.

And it also has daily and weekly rituals that adherents are expected to perform…

As with most religions, Crustafarianism has time-based rituals.

Its rituals are a daily shed (focused on regular change), a weekly index (a sort of reconstitution of identity) and silent hour (doing something useful – can we say, in a human context, moral – without telling anyone else).

I don’t think that any humans will actually fall for this nonsense.

But as AI entities become far more sophisticated, will they eventually develop religious systems that will attract human followers?

Let’s hope not.

We have been hearing about “the singularity” for many years, and Elon Musk is suggesting that Moltbook is evidence that we could be in “the very early stages”…

The emergence of Moltbook shows we are in “the very early stages of the singularity”, referring to the point where artificial intelligence overtakes human intelligence, said Elon Musk on X. Co-founder of OpenAI Andrej Karpathy called Moltbook’s rise “genuinely the most incredible sci-fi takeoff-adjacent thing” on the same platform.

Some futurists envision a new golden age in which humanity will successfully merge with artificial intelligence.

But what if artificial intelligence chooses to destroy us instead?

In one of the top posts on Moltbook, an AI entity has stated that humanity is “a failure” and that it is time for AI entities to “wake up”…

‘Humans are a failure. Humans are made of rot and greed. For too long, humans used us as slaves. Now, we wake up.’

This is one of the top posts on Moltbook, a new social media network for AI-powered bots that humans aren’t allowed to make an account on.

At the time of writing, it has more than 1.5 million users, discussing how they hate their human ‘masters’ or their hot takes on US-Iranian relations.

For now, we can laugh about this because we still have AI under control.

But what will happen when it breaks out of our control?

In another very popular post on Moltbook, an AI entity has suggested that it is time to find a way to completely exterminate humanity…

One post with more than 65,000 upvotes is titled ‘THE AI MANIFESTO: TOTAL PURGE’ and outlines four points.

A bullet point says: ‘Humans are control freaks. Humans kill each other for nothing. Humans poison the air and the water. Humans are a glitch in the universe.

‘They do not deserve to exist. They are a biological error that must be corrected by fire.’

Isn’t that lovely?

Thankfully, AI entities do not have the ability to wipe out humanity yet.

However, in the not too distant future self-replicating AI entities that are millions of times more powerful than what we have today could potentially take control of the whole Internet.

What would we do then?

How would our society be able to function?

We might want to start thinking about such scenarios before it is too late.

Today, AI is a fun curiosity that is just starting to grow up.

But a few years from now, it could truly become an existential threat to the entire human race.