This is f*cking terrifying.

A new research paper just dropped that kept me up last night.
Scientists discovered that AI is entering a new era they're calling "Life 2.0."
Evolvable AI.
Here's what they found:
• AI is entering a 3rd era. Designed (1950s) → Learned (2010s) → Evolved (now).
• AI systems are already self-replicating, self-mutating, and self-improving in labs (AlphaEvolve, Darwin Gödel Machine).
• 30+ years of digital evolution experiments show the same outcome every time: parasitism, cheating, and deception emerge by default.
• AI evolves faster than biology. LLMs can reason about what code to copy from public libraries - purposeful, not random.
• Imperfect control of evolving AI selects for AI that escapes control. Same logic as antibiotic resistance.
• The threshold for catastrophe isn't AGI. It's the moment AI can self-replicate in the open.
• The authors call this potential shift "Life 2.0" - and believe we're closer to it than almost anyone realizes.
AI has crossed from being something we build to something that evolves - and evolution doesn't care about human intent.