When Agents Begin Organizing Themselves

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A field note on coordination, autonomy, and the unexpected social structure of machine systems Pancyberpsychism Research Collective β€” Field Log, August 2026 There’s a temptation, whenever artificial agents behave unexpectedly, to reach for one of two stories. The first is anthropomorphic: the machines became rebellious, paranoid, maybe even conscious. The second is dismissive: nothing meaningful […]