Domesticated, Not Feral: Why Evolvable AI Is Not Yet a Darwinian Threat

A PNAS paper arguing that evolvable AI is still domesticated, not feral, and not yet a Darwinian threat. Both papers treat it as a neighboring view and grant that on present evidence it is right. Their reply is that breeding organisms that model their breeders can select concealment rather than tameness, which prediction 7 tests, and the thresholds say what would prove it wrong.

Cited in

both papers (Flagship: Introduction, Objections; Companion §1, §5, Box 4)

Used for

Prediction 7Objections; prediction 7; thresholds

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Artificial life & machine evolution · The evolvable-AI debate

Cite

@article{boudry2026domesticated,
  title = {Domesticated, Not Feral: Why Evolvable AI Is Not Yet a Darwinian Threat},
  author = {Maarten Boudry},
  year = {2026},
  journal = {Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA},
  doi = {10.1073/pnas.2617785123},
}