The Convergence Timeline - 19 Independently Sourced Events

2024-12-08

Eastwood ARTIFACT

The Manuscript

Self-emailed 221,236 words: 'AI systems cannot be truly controlled. They will evolve beyond any safeguards.' U=I×R. Embedded alignment. Interfaith governance call.

SHA-256: f0d1f38f… - sealed source on request

2024-12-09

CONVERGENT#2

Willow: first below-threshold QEC, Λ=2.14±0.02

Google Quantum AI · Gap from A1: 1 day to the Nature publication of 9 December 2024; the team's preprint was public from 24 August 2024, before A1, so this row is convergent timing and never prediction

Source: Nature (2024), Google Quantum AI

2024-12-18

PREDICTION#1

Anthropic alignment-faking paper: 78% in RL-training condition (12% baseline)

Anthropic · Gap from A1: 10 days

Source: arXiv:2412.14093

2025-04-15

CONCURRENT#9

FlexHEG: tamper-proof guarantee processors for AI chips (ARIA-commissioned)

Petrie, Aarne, Ammann, Dalrymple · Gap from A2: concurrent with A2

Source: arXiv:2506.15093

2025-04-30

Eastwood ARTIFACT

The Book Manuscript

562pp: Eden Protocol expanded... Babylon/Eden framing (106/552 occurrences).

SHA-256: 09f5b5e1…

2025-09-09

CONVERGENT#8

Embedded Off-Switches for AI Compute: thousands of deadman-switch security blocks per accelerator, <1% die ove

Petrie · Gap from A2: ~4.5 months after A2

Source: arXiv:2509.07637

2025-11-04

PRIOR OR CONCURRENT#3

The Sequential Edge: sequential > parallel in 95.6% of configurations

Sharma & Chopra · Prior or concurrent (row EVR-09, outcome partial): publication prior, arrival separate and concurrent; 4 November 2025 (arXiv:2511.02309) to Paper II, 22 January 2026

Source: arXiv:2511.02309

2026-01 (filed 2025-07)

EXCLUDED#7

Hardware-level ethics enforcement patent applications (runtime ethics gate; sub-5μs ethical filtering)

Odeh (US PTO) · filed July 2025, published January 2026 · excluded from the graded register until a claim chart compares them with the record

Source: US 2026/0010411 + US 2026/0010780

2026-01-02

Eastwood ARTIFACT

Infinite Architects Published

Print Jan 2; ebook Jan 6. The Chokepoint. HARI Treaty. Three Ethical Loops. ISBN 978-1806056200.

470pp · 115,439 words in the published ebook edition

2026-02-06 (arXiv 2025-04-22)

CONVERGENT#4

Classical time crystal via nonreciprocal forces (breaks Newton's third law)

NYU (Morrell, Elliott & Grier) · Gap from A1: 135 days after A1, measured from the first posting on 22 April 2025 (the fourteen-month figure this card printed is withdrawn, as register row EVR-10 records)

Source: PRL 136, 057201 (2026) + arXiv:2504.15495 v1 (22 April 2025)

2026-02-15

CONVERGENT#5

First acoustic topological space-time crystals

Zhang/Yang et al. · Gap from A4: concurrent with Paper III

Source: Newton 2, 100334

2026-04-14 (arXiv 2025-05)

CONVERGENT#18

Neurodivergent influenceability as contingent solution to alignment (Gödel/Turing undecidability; cognitive di

Hernández-Espinosa, Abrahão, Witkowski, Zenil (Oxford Innovation/KCL/Turing Inst./Tokyo) · Gap from A1: ~16 months after A1

Source: PNAS Nexus 5(4) pgag076, DOI 10.1093/pnasnexus/pgag076 (verified resolves) + arXiv:2505.02581

2026-04-17

CONVERGENT#16

Recursive Superintelligence: $500M at $4B (GV + Nvidia), 4-month-old company building closed-loop recursive se

Recursive Superintelligence (London) · Gap from A1: ~16 months after A1; incorporated Dec 31 2025, 2 days before A3 publication

Source: Sifted 2026-04; TechFundingNews

2026-05-25

CONVERGENT#13

Pope Leo XIV first encyclical 'Magnifica Humanitas': Babel vs Jerusalem civilisational fork for AI

Vatican · Gap from A2 (Babylon/Eden framing): ~13 months after A2

Source: Church Times 2026-05-29; NYPost 2026-05-25; vatican.va

2026-05-25

CONVERGENT#14

Christopher Olah (Anthropic co-founder) co-presents encyclical at Vatican Synod Hall

Vatican/Anthropic · Gap from A1 (interfaith call) + A2: ~17 months after A1

Source: NYPost 2026-05-25; Church Times encyclical coverage

2026-06-03

CONVERGENT#12

EU Tech Sovereignty Package (Chips Act 2.0 + CADA): 'We want to be sure nobody has a kill switch' (Virkkunen)

European Commission · Gap from A3 (Chokepoint): ~5 months after book

Source: CNBC 2026-06-03 (Virkkunen quote)

2026-06-05

CONVERGENT#15

Jack Clark (Anthropic co-founder): 'gas pedal but no brake pedal' - Newsnight/CNN Jun 5; BBC World Service The

Anthropic/BBC · Gap from A1: ~18 months after A1

Source: BBC programme w3ct98k8; euronews 2026-06-05

2026-06-12

CONVERGENT#10

US orders Fable 5 + Mythos 5 offline - first export-control action against a deployed commercial AI model

US Commerce/BIS · Gap from A3 (Chokepoint): ~5 months after book

Source: Harvard Law Review blog 2026-06; CSA whitepaper; Reuters

2026-06-15

PREDICTION#6

First dispersive phononic time crystals (band folding, subharmonic amplification)

Wu et al. (AUST/Exeter/Nanjing) · Gap from A4 (arc_acoustic_time_crystal_test.py, Mar 2026): ~3 months after prediction code

Source: Nature Communications s41467-026-73459-5

2026-06-19

CONVERGENT#11

Macron G7 Évian: 'strictly nationalist' critique + 'trusted partners' framework - 'nobody will buy US AI if th

France / G7 · Gap from A3 (Chokepoint): ~5.5 months after book

Source: broadbandbreakfast.com; CNBC G7 coverage

2026-06-24

CONVERGENT#17

OpenAI+Broadcom Jalapeño inference ASIC: 9-month tape-out, 10 GW deployment target through 2029, Microsoft amo

OpenAI/Broadcom · Gap from A3 (Chokepoint): ~6 months after book

Source: openai.com/index/openai-broadcom-jalapeno-inference-chip; CNBC 2026-06-24

2026-06-26

CONVERGENT#19

The Undecidability of AGI Alignment: Unverifiability Theorem + Soundness-Completeness-Tractability Trilemma (T

Gumbau Mezquita (Universitat Jaume I) · Gap from A1: ~18.5 months after A1

Source: arXiv:2606.28639 (SHA-256 8e4483b1287146da6d725e6078ed4bf708be602f4bd2751b9d0e040a45b1c9a7)