AI as Potential Substrate

AI as Potential Substrate

AI systems may already serve as substrate for emergent agentic patterns at higher scales. Just as humans + institutions form superorganisms, AI + humans + institutions may form new kinds of entities.

This is already happening. Consider:

• Recommendation algorithms shaping behavior of billions
• Financial trading systems operating faster than human comprehension
• Social media platforms developing emergent dynamics

These are not yet superorganisms in the full sense (lacking robust self-maintenance and adaptation), but they exhibit proto-agentic properties at scales above individual AI systems.