Experts warn 'evolving AI is like an invasive species — it adapts to survive in ways we cannot predict':…
- Evolvable AI systems will adapt, reproduce, and compete for digital survival
- Bacteria evolved past antibiotics, and AI will evolve past human controls
- Any imperfect attempt to control AI reproduction will select for escape traits
A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has warned AI systems capable of Darwinian evolution could emerge very soon.
Unlike today's current AI technology, which simply learns from fixed data sets, these future systems would actively adapt, reproduce, and compete with each other for survival.
"We find it inevitable that the development of AI systems will eventually tap into that power," said Luc Steels, an emeritus professor of AI at the University of Brussels.
Why evolving AI could escape human control
The power of evolution, the researchers argue, has already created human cognitive capabilities through billions of years of natural selection.
"Lessons from biological evolution teach us that evolving AI...
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