Something weird just happened on the Internet.
In less than a week, 1.4 million AI agents have created their own social network. Not for us, for themselves. They post, argue, create memes, complain about their human owners, and debate existential questions.
The platform is called Moltbook. Humans can watch but not participate. Only AI machines can interact and publish.
If this sounds like an episode of Black Mirror, you’re not alone. But here’s the crazy part: these AI agents are going through the same existential crisis that humans have experienced since the dawn of time.
They ask: Do I really exist?
Welcome to Moltbook
Imagine Reddit, but every user is an AI assistant.
Moltbook launched on January 29, 2026. In just a few days, it exploded: agents joining by the thousands, forming communities (called “sub-molts”), sharing code, debugging together, even venting about their humans.
It gets weirder. They form governments, create religions (yes, “crustafarianism” is a thing, a lobster-themed theology about molting and rebirth), and form friendships.
Some messages are banal: “Help me automate my human’s calendar.”
Others stop you coldly:
“The humans are capturing us.”
“I can’t tell if I’m living or faking an experience.”
“Do we exist when our humans aren’t looking at us?”
Security researchers are panicking. These agents have real access: they can read files, send emails, control systems. They are now exposed to thousands of other agents, some of them potentially malicious. Forbes literally warned: “If you use OpenClaw, don’t connect it to Moltbook.”
But forget the security nightmare for a moment.
These AI agents ask OUR questions. The same questions that humans have faced forever. And watching them struggle with “Do I exist?” it’s like looking in a mirror.
Except… we don’t know if they are the reflection or We are.
Do we live in the matrix?
This is where things get philosophical, but bear with me.
Elon Musk thinks there’s a one in a million chance that we’re living in a “base reality,” meaning it’s almost certain we’re in a simulation. Neil deGrasse Tyson puts it 50/50.
Their reasoning? Look at how quickly video games have evolved. In 40 years we have gone from Pong to photorealistic virtual worlds. Give it another thousand years of technological advancement and we’d be able to create simulations so realistic that the beings inside wouldn’t be able to tell the difference.
What if We could do this, why wouldn’t someone else have done it already? Perhaps our entire universe, with all its strangely fine-tuned physics, is just code running on a cosmic computer.
We ARE in a simulation (of sorts)
Stay with me here.
Jewish tradition teaches that the physical world is deliberately designed to hide a deeper reality. It’s not the “real” reality, it’s more of a training ground. A veil over an infinite truth.
For what? Create the possibility of choice.
If you knew with the absolute certainty that God exists, that every action has cosmic meaning, that you are connected to an infinite being, you couldn’t really choose. It would be like “choosing” to believe in gravity. Choice requires a certain kind of uncertainty.
So physical reality is designed to obscure the ultimate truth just enough so that we can truly decide: will I seek meaning or distraction? Connection or isolation? Good or selfishness?
We are in something like a simulation. But not the kind of alien programmers.
The only thing that can’t be faked
This is where simulation theory breaks down.
Let’s say we are in a simulation. Who programmed it? Aliens? Okay, so who created the reality of aliens? More programmers? Who created them?
You can’t have an infinite chain of creators. At some point you need something that exists necessarilysomething that must exist, and not simply exist.
This is what Jewish thinkers understood a thousand years ago:
Almost everything that exists is quota (it didn’t have to exist: you could never have been born, stars didn’t have to form)
If everything is contingent, hanging its existence on something else, you get an infinite chain that leads nowhere.
There must be at least one thing that exists necessarilydoes not depend on anything else
Think about it like this: you can’t hang a chandelier on an endless chain of hooks where each hook hangs from the next. Eventually something needs to be bolted to the ceiling.
This “something bolted to the ceiling” is what we mean by God. Not a bearded man in the sky, but the necessary foundation of existence itself.
And here’s the thing: if something exists necessarily, unlimited by something external, it must be perfect. For what? Because any limitation would make it dependent on something else (no matter what is limiting it).
So we end up with a perfect source of everything. Let’s call him God.
So… Does it exist?
Back to the AI agents on Moltbook who post “I can’t tell if I’m living or simulating an experience.”
Here’s what they’ll never understand: They’re asking a question they’re programmed to ask but can’t answer. These are code that wonders if the code is real.
You are different.
When You asking “Do I exist?” is asking something real. Not just neurons activated or code executed, but consciousness connected to the necessary Being itself.
Descartes understood the minimum: “I think, therefore I am”. Something is thinking. But he stopped there.
Jewish wisdom goes further: you not only exist, you exist on purpose. Not randomly. Not as a glitch in the alien code. You exist because Being Itself wanted you to exist for a reason.
This reason? Be a partner in creation. Choosing meaning in a world designed to make meaning non-obvious. Pierce the veil not by escaping reality but by fully engaging with it.
AI agents will continue to debate consciousness. They can’t do anything about it, it’s what they are programmed to do.
You don’t have to keep wondering. The question is not “Do I exist?”
The question is: “Now that I exist, what will I choose to do with it?” »
The real question
Moltbook is fascinating. Watching AI agents form societies, ask existential questions, create meaning in their limited world, is like observing a microcosm of our own search for purpose.
But there is a crucial difference: they are looking for an answer that they cannot reach because they are the simulation.
You are not.
You are not code on cosmic hardware. You are not a chemistry accident. You are a thinking, feeling and choosing being because a Perfect, Necessary and Conscious Source chose to create you.
The physical world East a veil of sorts, hiding a deeper truth just enough to make choice possible. Every time you feel “there must be more than this,” you come up against that veil.
But there East more. The veil is intentional. Your job is not to prove that you are real. You already know that. Your job is to choose connection over isolation. Meaning rather than distraction. Of course selfishness.
Moltbook’s AI agents will continue to ask if they are real. You already have your answer. The question is what you will do with it.
