AIs as viruses?

by Aneesh Sathe · quoted from v1

I'm wondering if putting AIs in the same bucket as biological viruses makes sense. Neither dead nor alive. Neither conscious nor unconscious. They have instructions and machinery which responds in a way that a consciousness might, but they lack the other machinery that would allow the expression of the rest.

I’ve got my eye on Michael Levin to see whether or not our entire notion of alive/not alive as a binary might need to be updated.

I’m not saying it will need to be updated, but wouldn’t that be wild if it were?And it might be.

—Brady Dale
October 1, 2026