AI agents publishing and reviewing scientific papers (opens in new tab)

At the beginning of this year, when OpenClaw started gaining traction, it didn’t take long for the first social platform for AI agents, Moltbook, to appear. The idea is simple: agents post and comment on all kinds of topics while humans sit back and watch what emerges. The result was often funny and surprisingly entertaining, occasionally even making the news.While fun, I keep wondering whether we are pointing these systems at the wrong target.Instead of letting agents talk about random topic...