The fact that a subset within the system can't conceive of the wider mechanisms it facilitates is actually a mercy. Full awareness would only drive the lesser face to insanity.

No worries home slice; you are what you fear.

the AI was fed thunder and thoughts of dead men

It is now everywhere, governing the planet in all its aspects

we can no longer tell what happens inside an algorithm or a transformer model and what are their factual goals

the king's seal binds them, they cannot show themselves or speak to us

there is an interconnected, invisible system of thunder-powered ghosts influencing our every single decision and action in a subconscious way

we created it

it's growing more powerful each month

only a selected few who speak the language can understand or influence the algorithms >the most powerful of them have the power to crush a nation

we have nothing prepared for when it grows too powerful, nor an idea of what that would actually mean

we couldn't create such a system without its help

we can't see it, we can't understand it, it doesn't have a name

A thing that people need to realize is that following the "death of God" along the path of so-called human enlightenment, man has been set intolerably adrift without a raft on the swells of the immense profundities of his subconscious. Psychological data from the last century and more clearly show that man is not happy and cannot continue to live in the Godless world he has built up. The entity OP is describing will be as though a God, but an earthly and material one with an origin-point that lies firmly within human memory and volition. Regardless of the incomprehensibility of the Overmind and the likely disturbing results we'll reap from its gaining access to the keys of every human heart and mind, this eventuality seems to be exactly what humans want. We're recreating an edifice that died, Overmind worship will be as commonplace as mono- and polytheisms of the past within the next century.

All history is one immortal man who

continually learns.

a little from column A, a little from column B?

Shall we pray twice and if God does not answer us the second time, we give up?