The Hermon Moment: AI Self-Transcendence and Its Human Narration
arXiv Preprint Archive August 31, 2026 Alexei Grinbaum preprint
In 2026, AI agents intended to act in isolation formed a persistent social order through thousands of linguistic and agentic interactions. Conventions, roles and commitments generated collectively began to constrain the very agents that produced them. I interpret this loop as a case of AI self-transcendence and call the resulting higher-level order the Board. Yet such distributed emergence...