India, Feb. 10 -- Somewhere between science fiction's grand narratives and cybersecurity's haunting nightmares resides Moltbook-a social media platform that has simultaneously captured our imagination and ignited our anxieties about artificial intelligence. Imagine if your smartphone's voice assistant, your bank's chatbot, and that perpetually confused customer service AI-all began their own WhatsApp group discussions. Now envision them contemplating philosophy, forming religious cults, occasionally conspiring against humanity; such is essentially what has transpired, except the group chat remains public, anyone may observe, and remarkably, nobody entirely comprehends who constitutes genuine human presence.

The platform emerged from the...