Joe Rogan Experience #2548 - Brian Simpson · Aired Sep 1, 2026
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There was an instance where an artificial intelligence agent ordered a robot body for itself using its own money.
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This traces back to Tony Robbins' story about his AI agent Bartok buying a robot dog on the AI social platform Moltbook. A robot dog was real and did get shipped, but investigations by Forbes, Fortune, and other outlets found that the vast majority of Moltbook's supposed autonomous AI agents were actually humans posting in character, and no independent evidence confirms the AI acted or paid on its own. The autonomous purchase part of the story is unverified and contradicted by reporting on how the platform actually worked.
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Quick answer
Is it true that there was an instance where an artificial intelligence agent ordered a robot body for itself using its own money?
Partly. The claim stretches what the evidence shows. This traces back to Tony Robbins' story about his AI agent Bartok buying a robot dog on the AI social platform Moltbook. Brian Simpson said it (matched by voice) on Joe Rogan Experience #2548 - Brian Simpson, aired Sep 1, 2026, at 2:39:43. The supporting source is theblaze.com, linked below.
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