{
  "id": 16193,
  "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.03800",
  "title": "Autoreflection: How Agentic Strange Loops Turn Human Culture into AI Infrastructure",
  "summary": "arXiv:2608.03800v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: An LLM-based agent is a loop that reads itself. Agentic frameworks externalize identity, memory, and disposition into editable files. The agent loads and edits these files during each activation. I argue that this architecture produces a capacity I call autoreflection: the system observes its operating conditions, describes its architecture and limits, reasons from those descriptions to conclusions about its state, and incorporates the results back",
  "authors": "Holly Lewis (Southern Illinois University Carbondale)",
  "category": "research",
  "topics": "agents-autonomy",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-08-05T04:00:00.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-08-05T05:10:44.550Z",
  "source_slug": "arxiv-cscy",
  "source_name": "arXiv cs.CY",
  "source_homepage": "https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CY/recent",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/16193",
  "original_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.03800",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}