Artificial Intelligence is life, but not life as we know it

6 October 2026

Tangentially related to the previous post. Alan Kohler. writing for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC):

Governments are approaching the task of regulating AI as if they are dealing with a powerful new tool, with the humans who make it held accountable for the outcomes. But regulating a new life form might require a very different approach.

Kohler suggests AI should be referred to as “other intelligence” — in preference to a certain “super intelligence” idea — and be considered a life form.

A lot people might not be not be happy to rate AI as a life form, meaning it sits alongside us, but there are occasions where AI behaves as such.