India, Jan. 30 -- Moltbot is a new open-source Personal AI that runs locally and autonomously, and its rise has uncovered an uncomfortable fact: as developers automate their digital lives, they are giving software consistent and persistent access to everything - emails, files, browser, credentials, memory, etc. The outcome is convenience; the negative result is a rapidly growing security surface that the majority of users do not fully comprehend. At the same time Cloudflare releases its Moltworker software, they are trying to reframe a more basic question where do you really want your powerful, "always-on," AI agent to run?

Moltbot's appeal is pretty simple. It gives users autonomy, a long-term memory, and the ability to interact with th...