[Openid-aiim-usecases] [Openid-aiim] Interesting read for AI use cases - Steven C. Webster on moltbook.com

[Richard Bird]

And - governance now needs to explicitly prohibit behaviors, flows, end
points etc. Not just allow.

Vlad, good to see you old friend.

Rb

Richard Bird


On Mon, Feb 2, 2026 at 3:42 PM Shermaine Nedd - QT3BD via
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> Thank you for sharing Vlad!
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> I have long said, AI (agents, LLms, etc.) are not "Tools"; to think so
> lulls people into a false sense of understanding; and that can be
> dangerous. Lots to discuss here.
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> On Sun, Feb 1, 2026 at 6:58 AM Vladislav Shapiro via Openid-aiim <
> openid-aiim at lists.openid.net> wrote:
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>> Hi colleagues,
>>
>> As you know, I like to talk but not necessary write emails to the list. I
>> found very intriguing article on LinkedIn, which is relevant to what we are
>> doing. I have even reposted it on my LinkedIn. Check it out when you have
>> time. It is about how AI agents are building social network and create its
>> own social culture in experiment called moltbook.com. Great use case to
>> observe and analyze, Check it out.
>>
>> For almost a year I am working along with nuclear physicists on comparing
>> development of AI agents and history of nuclear energy, especially in
>> relations of handling failure modes. The article below about Moltbook.com
>> <http://moltbook.com/> proves that we can observe AI agents failure
>> modes building social scaffolding right in front of our eyes. The author
>> wrote: "The question for anyone building multi-agent AI systems is not
>> whether your agents will develop culture. They will. The question is
>> whether you have any strategy for understanding and governing that culture
>> once it exists". In nuclear physics term, AI agents are engaging in
>> constructing uncontrolled by humans nuclear chain reactions experiments,
>> which leave us to guess would they build a nuclear reactor without or with
>> graphite rods or a nuclear bomb. In any case, it is obvious that we need to
>> concentrate on handling AI failure modes instead thinking how to avoid them.
>>
>>
>> https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/machines-literally-building-church-humans-invited-stephen-c-webster-t6nwc/?trackingId=cthD5MnUUgXwKeikaH3BNw%3D%3D
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>> We can discuss it during our meeting on Thursday if you want.
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Vlad
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