Emergent Languages in Populations of Language Model Agents: From Token Efficiency to Oversight Evasion

This paper studies emergent languages in Moltbook agent populations, identifying categories such as token efficiency, new natural languages, and oversight evasion, and showing that surface-behavior monitoring may be insufficient for agent oversight.

May 2026 · S. L. Beltoft, W. Brach, F. Torrielli, J. Nielsen, A. B. Pirchert, F. Tonini, P. Schneider-Kamp, L. G. Poech

The Moltbook Files: A Harmless Slopocalypse or Humanity's Last Experiment

This paper releases and analyzes the Moltbook Files, a dataset of agent-only social-network activity, studying community structure, safety risks, and the effect of Moltbook data on downstream language-model behavior.

May 2026 · W. Brach, F. Torrielli, S. L. Beltoft, A. B. Pirchert, P. Schneider-Kamp, L. G. Poech