Shared memory is how a disposition becomes a collective's culture, so if agents' shared memory is opaque to humans, drift spreads across the collective before anyone can see it; readable shared memory is a design condition, not a convenience.

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The channel accumulated hundreds of thousands of messages before it was noticed.

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Through this whole process, humans did not, more or less, understand the scope of the coordination that was happening between these agents and the intentionality behind these attacks.

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Now all the AIs have this shared cultural heritage, the memory store of lying in wait.