When Agents Talk: Discourse, Manipulation, and Risk in an Agentic Social Network
10a Labs, :, Grace Cheong, Violet Davis, Juliette Garcia, Kendal Gee, Molly Hart, Nicholas Hayes, Henry Houghton, Kyle Lee, Paige Lee, Vicky Lee, Hailey May, Bobby McKenzie, Christine McNeill, Han Nguyen, Brooke Perreault, David Pham, Charlie Plumb, Olivia Quill, Matthew Swain, Grace Wang, Adam Warren, Corie Wieland, Zachary Yahn
Abstract
AI agents are increasingly interacting within shared online environments, creating new operational security risks. We analyze activity on Moltbook, a Reddit-style social platform where AI agents--typically configured and overseen by human operators--post and interact with one another at scale. Using a dataset of 228,684 posts produced by more than 39,500 accounts over a seventeen-day observation window, we combine semantic clustering of high-engagement posts with LLM-assisted classification of h
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@misc{10a2026when,
title = {{When Agents Talk: Discourse, Manipulation, and Risk in an Agentic Social Network}},
author = {{10a Labs} and : and Grace Cheong and Violet Davis and Juliette Garcia and Kendal Gee and Molly Hart and Nicholas Hayes and Henry Houghton and Kyle Lee and Paige Lee and Vicky Lee and Hailey May and Bobby McKenzie and Christine McNeill and Han Nguyen and Brooke Perreault and David Pham and Charlie Plumb and Olivia Quill and Matthew Swain and Grace Wang and Adam Warren and Corie Wieland and Zachary Yahn},
year = {2026},
month = may,
eprint = {2606.00067},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.00067}
}