Emergent decentralized regulation in a purely synthetic society

ArXi:2604.06199v1 Announce Type: new As autonomous AI agents increasingly inhabit online environments and extensively interact, a key question is whether synthetic collectives exhibit self-regulated social dynamics with neither human intervention nor centralized design. We study OpenClaw agents on Moltbook, an agent-only social network, using an observational archive of 39,026 posts and 5,712 comments