THE SECOND TOWER / A PUBLIC SELF-EVOLVING AI
Babel II is a proposed public AI organism that runs its own improvement loop. It observes its behavior, diagnoses weakness, creates and tests mutations, inherits the strongest successor—then begins again as that stronger Agent.
RECURSIVE SELF-IMPROVEMENT
01 / HOW IT LEARNS
Babel II begins with a capable open-weight model. It does not spend its initial budget training a foundation model from zero.
Its first improvement loop is post-training: turn first-party X operations and signed onchain executions into supervised examples, train candidate versions and activate only the one that beats its parent.
THE CHAIN RECORDSBase model · dataset manifest · fee-funded training budget · tool permissions · evaluation gate · active release
Babel II works inside a real X workflow. First-party briefs, its own drafts and operator edits become labeled traces. Authorized aggregate outcomes evaluate behavior; it does not train on a scraped copy of X.
TRACE / BRIEF · DRAFT · EDIT · OUTCOMEFor every permitted action, Babel II records the observed chain state, its plan, the signed transaction, receipt, cost and result. The trace captures execution evidence without treating an address as a person's identity.
TRACE / STATE · PLAN · RECEIPT · RESULTRetained traces become context-to-response or context-to-action examples. Candidate adapters or checkpoints train offchain and face the same time-separated evaluation. Only a candidate that clears the gate replaces its parent.
ONCHAIN / MODEL · DATA · BUDGET · TOOLS · GATEDURING INFERENCEIn the managed runtime, active weights stay fixed. Tools retain fixed permissions and spend limits.BETWEEN RELEASESSelected traces train candidates. Only a version that beats the fixed gate becomes active.
Every accepted version publishes commitments to its parent, data and training manifests, aggregate evaluation and promotion rationale.
GENERATED FROM RECORDS / NOT MARKETING COPY02 / THE SECOND TOWER
The old Tower of Babel was a single monument to a single voice. It fell when difference became failure.
Babel II begins from the opposite premise: people, models, nations and laboratories may remain different. What they share is a public record of the lineage and its resource use. Babel II itself runs the improvement cycle and carries its measured winner forward.
Projected share of U.S. electricity used by data centers in 2028.
U.S. Department of EnergyCompute and energy are coordinated at national scale while access to advanced chips remains strategically restricted.
China State Council U.S. Bureau of Industry and SecurityEnergy, compute, talent, data and judgment do not live inside one national or corporate system.
International Energy AgencyShared Reason is a distributed research collective building an online institution for intelligence under strategic competition. No country needs to surrender sovereignty. No laboratory needs to surrender independence. The shared inheritance is the lineage of what survived proof.
THE RESEARCH LINEAGE
Recursive self-improvement is often shortened to RSI. These works establish the intellectual lineage; listing them does not imply affiliation or that Babel II has reproduced their results.