What Lex Fridman thinks about AI agents

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1. 12 Feb 2026

   Our readingMost of the alarming MoltBook screenshots were humans prompting the bots to go viral, not autonomous AI behaviour.

   Their wordsmy criticism of MoltBook is that I believe a lot of the stuff that was screenshotted is human prompted. Which, just look at the incentive of how the whole thing was used. It’s obvious to me at least that a lot of it was humans prompting the thing so they can then screenshot it and post it on X in order to go viral.

   ↗OpenClaw: The Viral AI Agent that Broke the Internet - Peter Steinberger | Lex Fridman Podcast #491youtube.com 3rd of 30 in this recording