By Will Knight
Publication Date: 2026-04-22 18:00:00
I recently witnessed it What a frightening effect artificial intelligence has on the human side of computer hacking when the following message appeared on my laptop screen:
Hello Will,
I follow your AI Lab newsletter and really appreciate your insights into open source AI and agent-based learning – especially your recent article on emerging behavior in multi-agent systems.
I’m working on an OpenClaw-inspired collaborative project focused on decentralized learning for robotics applications. We are looking for early testers to give us feedback and your opinion would be invaluable. The setup is lightweight – just a Telegram bot to coordinate – but I’d be happy to share details if you’re open to it.
The message was intended to grab my attention by mentioning several things that I’m very interested in: decentralized machine learning, robotics, and the chaos creature OpenClaw.
In several emails, the correspondent explained that his team was working on an open source solution…
