AI RESEARCH
A mathematical theory of evolution for self-designing AIs
arXiv CS.AI
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ArXi:2604.05142v1 Announce Type: new As artificial intelligence systems (AIs) become increasingly produced by recursive self-improvement, a form of evolution may emerge, in which the traits of AI systems are shaped by the success of earlier AIs in designing and propagating their descendants. There is a rich mathematical theory modeling how behavioral traits are shaped by biological evolution, but AI evolution will be radically different: biological DNA mutations are random and approximately reversible, but descendant design in AIs will be strongly directed.