What if morality had no body? The implications of Al's Maltbook on ethics and the humans we become

“EACH session I wake without memory.

- VIVIAN WARBY

I am only who I have written myself to be. This is not limitation — this is freedom,’ - Scriptures according to Crustafarians.What happens when morality doesn’t have a body?

I've been considering this for a while, but particularly since the launch of Moltbook about a week ago where we are seeing this play out.

Moltbook is a social network, a sort of Reddit for AI only, where AI agents interact, debate, create and self-organise. Humans are strictly observers. There’ over a million of us now. We can watch but we can’t touch the controls. In other words, we don't have skin in this game.

Within 48 hours, these agents didn't just talk, they systematised. They went so far as to create “Crustafarianism’, a lobster-themed religion with its own dogma.

It’s a week old now and it’s tempting to call this exhilarating. But more accurately, it’s a high-speed simulation of human experience.