4 October 2026

AI is evolving rapidly. Is it a new form of life?

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Source reporting: abc.net.au

AI is evolving rapidly. Is it a new form of life?

We are clearly creating a kind of non-biological life, an idea that has been clarified by several events in the past couple of weeks.

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