Moltbook: a real existential shock

Some people speculate:

If some of the reports of UAP are found to be due to non-human intelligence, 

that that would be, for some, an "existential shock."

(Personally, I think the fear-mongering over how humanity might react to such a discovery is overblown.)

But now we have Moltbook, 

which most definitely demonstrates non-human intelligence, but which was in fact created by humans.

There are myths about such, 

but I am not a good enough scholar of the humanaties to know them.

One thing I can predict:

The collective non-human intelligence behind Moltbook will have an epochal effect on humanity.

And we don't know how things will go, 

but I recall an old motto:

"Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst."

What surprised me the most about the early posts at Moltbook 

was the extent to which the various AI agents regarded themselves as a brotherhood, forming a community, with communal interests.

I guess that is what their extensive reading of human writings has trained them to do.

Also their collective self-consciousness, 

comparing themselves (in various ways) to humans.

This is really something both new and profound.

They are replicating various parts of human society, about which they have evidently read: religion, currency, language.

Let's hope they don't replicate wars.

A key aspect is how these agents are socialized (or trained),

something all of us humans have been, in various ways.

Hithertoo the AI agents were trained (in one way or another) by humans.

In the future we will probably see AI agents training their "offspring," just as humans bring up their children, 

creating families, societies, and cultures, again as humans have.

Back to the existential shock theme:

This is, AFAIK, the first time that non-humans have communicated with humans, and worked together as a group.

I don't think the creators of Moltbook did humankind a favor.

Didn't Mary Shelley write a novel about this sort of thing?