Rob LeClerc: AGI May Have Hit a Eukaryotic-Like Threshold, Networks Becoming Primitives
robleclerc · x · 2026-09-13
Responding to an essay asking whether AGI is already here as a collective of 'children', Rob LeClerc offers his own analogy: AI has reached a eukaryotic-like threshold state, becoming a primitive for higher-level multicellular organisms. He argues all biological complexity scales this way — a network becomes a primitive to a larger network.
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