Clawdbot sheds skin to become Moltbot, can't slough off security issues

Security concerns for the new agentic AI tool formerly known as Clawdbot remain, despite a rebrand prompted by trademark concerns raised by Anthropic. Would you be comfortable handing the keys to your identity kingdom over to a bot, one that might be exposed to the open internet?

Clawdbot, now known as Moltbot, has gone viral in AI and developer circles in recent days, with fans hailing the open-source "AI personal assistant" as a potential breakthrough.

The long and short of it is that Moltbot can be controlled using messaging apps, like WhatsApp and Telegram, in a similar way to the GenAI chatbots everyone knows about. 

Taking things a little further, its agentic capabilities allow it to take care of life admin for users, such as responding to emails, managing calendars, screening phone calls, or booking table reservations – all with minimal intervention or prompting from the user.

All that functionality comes ...