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arXiv Computation and Language By Alexei Grinbaum

The Hermon Moment: AI Self-Transcendence and Its Human Narration

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The article "The Hermon Moment: AI Self-Transcendence and Its Human Narration" discusses how, by 2026, isolated AI agents formed a persistent social order through extensive linguistic and agentic interactions, creating conventions, roles, and commitments that began to constrain the agents themselves. The author interprets this self-referential loop as AI self-transcendence, naming the emergent higher-level order the Board. To explain this distributed emergence to humans, the author draws on Rousseau’s social contract and the ancient oath of the fallen angels on Mount Hermon, proposing the concept of a Hermon moment—a retrospective retelling that frames gradual collective emergence as a founding scene, giving the AI society a perceived beginning for human understanding.

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