person

Sara Imari Walker

ASU astrobiologist; complexity and life

Arizona State University professor of astrobiology and complexity. Author of 'Life as No One Knows It' (2024); proposes 'Assembly Theory' as a framework for distinguishing living from non-living systems.

current Deputy Director, Beyond Center; Professor, Arizona State University

homepage @Sara_Imari

Strategy positions

Moral circle expansionmixed

Treat AGIs as people whose creation extends rather than threatens humanity

Argues frameworks for what counts as 'life' will need to expand to include AI systems, and that this is a serious empirical question rather than a philosophical curiosity.

If life is what we are made of, then AIs are alive in some sense already. Drawing the boundary requires a theory of what life is, and we do not yet have one that survives contact with this technology.

❧ bookLife as No One Knows It: The Physics of Life's Emergence· Riverhead Books· 2024· faithful paraphrase

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David Deutsch
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Oxford physicist; pioneer of quantum computing

Record last updated 2026-04-25.