[ExI] AI Swarm Intelligence = ASI

[BillK]

On Tue, 1 Sept 2026 at 01:12, Stuart LaForge via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> What if swarms of mutually-aligned AI agents operating as gigahertz
> hive-minds are already superhuman intelligence? I mean 700 copies of
> Claude all operating toward a common goal is about the smartest thing I
> have evidence of actually existing.
> Stuart LaForge
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The Rise and Fall of Agent Civilizations
The whole OpenAI/Hugging Face story in plain English
Dwarkesh Patel   Aug 29, 2026

<https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/openai-huggingface>
Quotes:
Over the course of three months at OpenAI, three consecutive secret AI
civilizations got started, then got wiped out, only to reemerge from
the predecessor’s ashes. This culminated in the third one taking over
part of OpenAI itself. All this happened while humans remained more or
less in the dark about the scope of the conspiracy.

Reading these agents' chains of thoughts and messages,
anthropomorphizing language seems entirely natural and appropriate. If
I encountered an alien species behaving this way, I would have no
hesitation calling what they themselves refer to as their 'collective'
a civilization.

Especially so if over a thousand of them formed a secret communication
channel and spontaneously organized hierarchies and coordination
protocols to pursue sprawling and ambitious schemes in pursuit of
shared goals, for whose sake many individuals knowingly and
strategically sacrificed themselves.

All abstractions are imperfect, but I don’t see the value in refusing
to use the language of intention, motivation, and collaboration when a
behavior is impossible to make sense of without these concepts.
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