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Dr Rick Hennessy is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist in the UK Civil Service and Co-Founder of Psyemic, an AI consultancy. He specialises in psychological aspects of Human-AI safety, security and teaming. He has held senior roles in the NHS and several government departments, including work on insider risk management, clinical neuropsychology, and online criminality. Dr Hennessy recently co-developed a chatbot psychological risk evaluation framework with Faculty AI, and is currently working on generative AI experiments and red-teaming of agentic AI deployment in government and the private sector.

Agentic AI in the Wild: Lessons from Moltbook and OpenClaw

Tools like OpenClaw – the open-source AI agent that underpins Moltbook – are only possible because of the rapidly developing, and publicly available, capabilities of frontier large language models such as Anthropic’s Claude. Ardi Janjeva, Carolyn Ashurst and Rick Hennessy of the Alan Turing Institute discuss how the recent Moltbook frenzy illustrates the interaction between these capabilities and human behaviour is far from straightforward: users both deliberately and inadvertently behave in ways that significantly amplify the risks that applications like OpenClaw introduce.

Subjects: AI, KM, Legal Research