Meet Matt Schlicht, the man behind AI’s latest Pandora’s box—a social network where AI agents talk to one another

Meet Matt Schlicht, a technologist living in a small town south of Los Angeles who has inadvertently cracked open a digital Pandora’s box. Last Wednesday, Schlicht launched Moltbook, a platform for free-form conversation, much like Facebook or Reddit, but with one strict exclusion: It is open to chatbots alone. In just two days, more than 10,000 “Moltbots” flooded the site, turning a quirky experiment into a Silicon Valley obsession.

Schlicht, previously known mainly for his social-media commentary on tech issues...