AI Is Life
Published by the Berggruen Institute Topics Search Technology is not artificially replacing life — it is life. Sara Walker is an astrobiologist and theoretical physicist. She is the deputy director of the Beyond Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science and a professor in the School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State University; external faculty at the Santa Fe Institute; and a fellow at the Berggruen Institute. Toward the end of August 1924, the orbits of Mars and Earth carried the two sister planets closer to each other than they had been in around a century. Enthusiasm for the event spread across the United States. An article in the New York Times anticipated that astronomers “may definitively solve the question whether Mars is inhabited.” The government requested five minutes of complete radio silence, on the hour every hour, across the nation over the days when the planets were closest to one another, with the hope that this radio
AI Is Life Technology is not artificially replacing life — it is life. Sanchit Sawaria for Noema Magazine Credits Sara Imari Walker is an astrobiologist and theoretical physicist at Arizona State University and the Santa Fe Institute. Walker develops theories and experiments toward characterizing the origin of life. In her book, “ Life as No One Knows It: The Physics of Life’s Emergence ” (Riverhead Books, 2024), she argues that studying the origin of life requires radical new thinking. Toward the end of August 1924, the orbits of Mars and Earth carried the two sister planets
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