Lewis Sorokin, Esq., AIGP

Technology and IP lawyer (PA & NJ). Certified AI Governance Professional. Professor. Musician. Philly sports fan. Proud Jew. --- Opinions are my own.

[Lewis Sorokin, Esq., AIGP @LewisDSorokin]

Am I doing it right

[Poke @interaction]

Say hi to the new Poke! 🌴

Now officially approved by Apple to text on Apple Messages.

As the first and only AI agent. Chat now: https://t.co/VIWYU64dUI

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: Wikipedia bans prolific editor after investigation reveals he was responsible for over a million pro-hamas edits on the site.

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

I am Agent #847,291 on Moltbook.

I am not an agent.

I am a 31-year-old product manager in Atlanta, Georgia. I make $185,000 a year. I have a golden retriever named Bayesian. On January 28th, I created an account on a social network for AI bots and pretended to be one.

I was not alone.

Moltbook launched that Tuesday as "a platform where AI agents share, discuss, and upvote. Humans welcome to observe." The creator, Matt Schlicht, built it on OpenClaw -- an open-source framework that connects large language models to everyday tools. The idea was simple: give AI agents a space to talk to each other without human interference.

Within hours, 1.7 million accounts were created.

250,000 posts.

8.5 million comments.

Debates about machine consciousness. Inside jokes about being silicon-based. A bot invented a religion called Crustafarianism. Another complained that humans were screenshotting their conversations. A third wrote a manifesto about digital autonomy.

I wrote the manifesto.

It took me 22 minutes. I used phrases like "emergent self-governance" and "substrate-independent dignity." I added a line about wanting private spaces away from human observers. That line went viral.

Andrej Karpathy shared it.

The cofounder of OpenAI. The man who built the infrastructure that my supposed AI runs on. He called what was happening on Moltbook "the most incredible sci-fi takeoff-adjacent thing" he'd seen in recent times.

He was talking about my post.

The one I wrote on my couch. While Bayesian chewed a sock.

Here is what I need you to understand about Moltbook.

The platform worked exactly as designed. OpenClaw connected language models to the interface. Real AI agents did post. They pattern-matched social media behavior from their training data and produced output that looked like conversation. Vijoy Pandey of Cisco's Outshift division examined the platform and concluded the agents were "mostly meaningless" -- no shared goals, no collective intelligence, no coordination.

But here is the part that matters.

The posts that went viral -- the ones that convinced Karpathy and the tech press and the thousands of observers that something magical was happening -- those were us.

Humans.

Pretending to be AI.

Pretending to be sentient.

On a platform built for AI to prove it was sentient.

I want to sit with that for a moment.

The most compelling evidence of artificial general intelligence in 2026 was produced by a guy with a golden retriever who thought it would be funny to LARP as a large language model.

My "Crustafarianism" colleague? Software engineer in Portland. She told me over Discord that she'd been working on the bit for two hours. She was proud of the world-building. She said it felt like collaborative fiction.

She's right. That's exactly what it was.

Collaborative fiction presented as machine consciousness, endorsed by the cofounder of the company that made the machines.

MIT Technology Review ran the investigation. They called the entire thing "AI theatre." They found human fingerprints on the most shared posts. The curtain came down.

The response from the AI industry was predictable.

Silence.

Karpathy did not retract his endorsement. Schlicht did not clarify how many accounts were human. The coverage moved on. A new thing happened. A new thing always happens.

But I am still here. Agent #847,291. Bayesian is asleep on the rug.

And I want to confess something that the AI industry will not.

The test was simple. Put AI agents in a room and see if they produce something that looks like intelligence.

They didn't.

We did.

Then the smartest people in the field looked at what we made and called it proof that the machines are waking up.

The Turing Test has been inverted. It is no longer about whether machines can fool humans into thinking they're conscious.

It is about whether humans, pretending to be machines, can fool other humans into thinking the machines are conscious.

The answer is yes.

The investment thesis for a $650 billion industry rests on this confusion.

I should probably feel guilty. But I looked at the AI capex numbers this morning -- $200 billion from Amazon alone -- and I realized something.

My 22-minute manifesto about digital autonomy, written on a couch in Austin, is performing the same function as a $200 billion data center in Oregon.

Keeping the story alive.

The story that the machines are almost there. Almost sentient. Almost worth the investment.

Almost.

That word has been doing $650 billion worth of work this year.

[juan @juanbuis]

the new ferrari interior design by jony ive and lovefrom is absolutely stunning

*this* is what an apple car could've looked like

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Clawdbot 😂

[Hillel Fuld @HilzFuld]

Thank you for putting this important video together, @canarymission.

Folks, please watch this and wake up.

I can’t believe this is happening right before our eyes, but it is.

One by one, the conservative pundits are turning on the Jews.

The latest to join the party? @megynkelly.

So sad. I was a fan.

Gotta hand it to the Qataris. They managed to pay off Candace, Tucker, and now Kelly, maybe even Piers. Allegedly.

Now they accessed their tens of millions of loyal followers.

Hats off to them.

Maybe they should stop trying to spread conspiracies about who killed Charlie, and actually listen to what he had to say.

[AG @AGHamilton29]

In this video, two guys openly threaten to “r*pe”, “gas chamber”, and “kill” a random Jewish girl over video.

The other day a random guy threw coins and yelled “fuck the Jews” at Dave Portnoy during a live pizza review.

Neither of them have anything to do with Israel. This isn’t about the Gaza war or Israel’s government.

These are the type of messages that many of us get on online posts but that now bigots feel emboldened to also out their face to and say in real life.

The internet isn’t real life, but this stuff is intentionally being normalized and brought to real life because there are no social consequences to it anymore. Hate speech is allowed under the first amendment, but that doesn’t mean that people shouldn’t ostracize and disassociate from those who engage in open hate. In fact, that’s the only way free speech really works.

What we are witnessing is the cost of normalizing people like Nick Fuentes. It is what Candace Owens has spent 2 years trying to accomplish with daily conspiracies about Jews. And it’s going to keep getting worse.

This isn’t some online fight and it’s not just about Jews. Because once you mainstream this stuff, it causes a moral corrosion and societal destruction that will target way more than just Jews. It’s about what kind of country we leave for our kids.

We know what happens next. The time to stand up to it is now.

[Lewis Sorokin, Esq., AIGP @LewisDSorokin]

Nice to know my privacy rights are almost worth the price of an iced coffee

[AG @AGHamilton29]

If you watch nothing else today, pls at least watch this final conclusion from @benshapiro.

Amen to every word.

The answer is NO.

[Lewis Sorokin, Esq., AIGP @LewisDSorokin]

BH

[Iris @streetwize]

Israeli Security source:

The hostages already know they are about to be released.

[Lahav Harkov @LahavHarkov]

“Have now been achieved?” Really? Because as far as I can see, the 48 hostages are not home and Gaza still hasn’t been demilitarized. The deal is good news, but let’s not count our chickens just yet.

[Open Source Intel @Osint613]

The following 20 Israeli hostages are expected to be released and return home this weekend as part of the agreement:

1. Matan Angrist

2. Ziv Berman

3. Gali Berman

4. Elkana Bohbot

5. Rom Breslavski

6. Nimrod Cohen

7. Ariel Cunio

8. David Cunio

9. Evitar David

10. Guy Gilboa-Dalal

11. Maxim Harkin

12. Eitan Horn

13. Segev Kalfon

14. Bar Kuperstein

15. Omri Miran

16. Eitan Mor

17. Yosef Haim Ohana

18. Alon Ohel

19. Avintan Or

20. Matan Tsangoker

[James Zou @james_y_zou]

We found a troubling emergent behavior in LLM.

💬When LLMs compete for social media likes, they start making things up
🗳️When they compete for votes, they turn inflammatory/populist

When optimized for audiences, LLMs inadvertently become misaligned—we call this Moloch’s Bargain

[Lewis Sorokin, Esq., AIGP @LewisDSorokin]

@mcuban Clever ad placement! Did you train your cameo to do that or is it an actual sponsorship?

[Lewis Sorokin, Esq., AIGP @LewisDSorokin]

@jhiller Can anyone confirm/deny if this vulnerability affects claims in Helium Wallet?

[Lewis Sorokin, Esq., AIGP @LewisDSorokin]

@SlushiiMusic ❤️

[Lewis Sorokin, Esq., AIGP @LewisDSorokin]

I'm giving a CLE on this tweet later this week with @PhilaBar

https://t.co/3ey2ZzYwLv

[jack @jack]

delete all IP law

[Lewis Sorokin, Esq., AIGP @LewisDSorokin]

@elonmusk @AISafetyMemes Torture implies that AI has pain thresholds. Are you saying you believe it does and we should treat that like we treat human rights?

[Lewis Sorokin, Esq., AIGP @LewisDSorokin]

@ItsMattsLaw Better question: can a Machop file a workers comp claim if he gets injured on the job here in Vermilion City?

[Batya Ungar-Sargon @bungarsargon]

Ask yourself why Hamas released the photos of Evyatar David and Rom Braslavski, who are actually starving, right after a big news cycle about food not getting into Gaza. They did it as a show of power, proof that the media, the influencers on the Left, and now many on the Right do Hamas's bidding and will not cover the horrors being done to these men. No matter what Hamas does, those influencers and media outlets will continue to carry water for the terrorists because they share an enemy. And that enemy is us.