There's a hot new personal AI in town that can send texts, check your calendar, come up with business ideas, spend your money and leak your data—all depends on how you use it

The Moltbot logo on a computer screen, plus a catchphrase underneath.

Clawdbot—sorry, Moltbot—is everywhere right now, assuming your algorithms are vaguely tech-adjacent. It's an AI bot that claims to be able to do stuff. Lots of stuff. Of course, alongside such extravagant promises are a whole host of potential security and privacy concerns.

According to its website, which can still be found at clawd.bot as well as molt.bot—Claude-owner Anthropic forced the AI bot to change its name because of trademark issues—it says that it's "the AI that actually does things: clears your inbox, sends emails, manages your calendar, checks you in for flights. All from WhatsApp, Telegram, or any chat app you already use."