Evolvable AI: Threats of a New Major Transition in Evolution

A PNAS paper arguing that evolvable AI threatens a new major transition in evolution. Both papers place it in the debate that swarm ecology joins, opposite Boudry's view that evolvable AI is still domesticated. The companion follows it in defining what changes at Darwinization: the open environment, not breeders, comes to set fitness and control reproduction.

Cited in

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

Used for

Neighboring fields; Darwinization of the datasphere

Strand

Artificial life & machine evolution · The evolvable-AI debate

Cite

@article{muller2026evolvable,
  title = {Evolvable AI: Threats of a New Major Transition in Evolution},
  author = {Viktor Müller and Luc Steels and Eörs Szathmáry},
  year = {2026},
  journal = {Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA},
  doi = {10.1073/pnas.2527700123},
}