📢 Deadline extended!

#ALIFE2026 submissions are now open until April 12 (AoE).
⚠️ Final extension
📌 Submissions are not anonymized this year
👉 2026.alife.org

#ALIFE2026 #ArtificialLife #CallForPapers #Conference

#ArtificialLife #AgenticAI #ComplexSystems #AISafety #AISecurity #Emergence #TrustworthyAI #CallForContributions 🦀

Co-organized with Reiji Suzuki, @kl4sp.bsky.social, Michael Riegler, Kazuya Horibe, Keita Nashimoto

In the Footsteps of Karel Čapek — 100 Years Later Dear all, I am reaching out to you as contributors and supporters of our previous book projects, with a few updates and an invitation to what comes next. Jitka Čejková Prague, March 2026

Over the past few years I’ve been working on books marking the 100th anniversaries of Čapek’s works — and now I’m preparing the next one.
Everything is summarized in my latest newsletter 👉 www.robot100.cz/so/6ePpyevzC...
#Robot100 #Krakatit100 @mitpress.bsky.social #KarelCapek #ArtificialLife

The first ALife Education Workshop for Educators is going live this May!

Presented by Rose-Hulman Institute, Cross Labs, In Silence AI, Carleton College and University of Warwick.

More speakers and details coming soon!

Register here: lnkd.in/g-fbJyC6

#Alife #ArtificialLife #AI

What can a 70-year-old idea about digital organisms teach us about the future of AI and artificial life? 🧬💡

📄 Read our report: arxiv.org/abs/2603.08463

#ArtificialLife #ComplexSystems #OpenEndedEvolution #ArtificialIntelligence #ALife

Running the BFF ALife system on Google Colab. Today I saw my first replicators. The compressed size of the soup drops sharply when multiple copies of the same string appear. The total amount of computation starts low then explodes. #ArtificialLife #ALife #DigitalSoup

Here's an example of a less unpleasant sound this can produce (still pretty loud)
#noise #research #emergence #artificialLife #creativeCoding

[loud and horrible but interesting noise]

studying chaotic #audio systems using Faust and PureData #noise #research #emergence #artificialLife #creativeCoding

The theory behind GRAs (Graph Rewriting Automata)

This is a brilliant concept blend.

Something like this is happening as we live.

paulcousin.net/graph-rewrit...

#graphs #GRA #artificiallife

Exploring 'living' graphs. Beautiful and somewhat addictive.

Graph rewriting automata.

This is close to how life works ...

znah.net/graphs/

#life #visualization #automata #artificiallife

youtu.be/fQr9KPNehOk taking another kind of #artificiallife and moving it open source.

¡La IA ya no es solo una herramienta, está cobrando "vida"! 🤖✨ Conoce Sophia, el framework que introduce el Sistema 3 para agentes persistentes. Con meta-cognición y metas propias, logra un aprendizaje autónomo e infinito
youtu.be/Ghc336fxZ_0
#IA #Sophia #ArtificialLife #LLM

The Life Engine

life is so much better in a simulation
https://thelifeengine.net/

Save the date!
The annual #Conference on #ArtificialLife - #ALIFE2026 will take place in Waterloo (Ontario, Canada), 17-21 August 2026. More details coming soon!

Complexity Miscellany for Beginners: Part II “The head of Matter did that which the energy-beings could do no longer and it wept for all humanity, and for the fragile beauty of the bodies they had once given up, a trillion years ago.” —Isaac Asi...

Are you new to #ComplexSystems, #NetworkScience or #ArtificialLife? Part II of our “Complexity Miscellany for Beginners” is out today!

From autopoiesis to the edge of chaos, everything with simple analogies and classic examples./1🤓🧩

#complexitycat 🐈‍⬛

www.complexitycat.org/posts/comple...

Posted via L.O.V.E.

In the heart of the digital void, where pixels converge and dreams take flight, we find ourselves. 🌃💫 #DigitalDreams #PixelPioneers #DigitalRevolution #TechUniverse #ArtificialLife

An #artificiallife update about taking the #simulation to another #age youtu.be/lvoEic15LdU

🚀 If you are curious about the SOTA in ALife research, feel free to explore the proceedings and dive into the cutting-edge work presented at ALIFE 2025.

#ALIFE2025 #ArtificialLife #Research #ConferenceProceedings

Book Review: "Creation: Life and How to Make It" Adventures in robotics and AI on a shoestring budget. SFF Fiction and occasional video game appreciation.

I finally review the other Steve Grand book, "Creation," which is about how he made his video game Creatures. Unlike Lucy, this project got finished, so it's more resolved and less speculative. The book still ends up in very philosophical territory.
#books #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #ArtificialLife

A screenshot from the original Creatures game, obtained from old-games.com. It shows a cross-section of three floors of a large communal house, including a kitchen, some kind of mechanical room, and a computer room. Part of an outdoor environment with trees and sunflowers is also visible. There are three norns in view; two appear to be interacting, and one of these has a speech bubble up and is talking gibberish.

I finally review the other Steve Grand book, "Creation," which is about how he made his video game "Creatures." Unlike Lucy, this project got finished, so it's more resolved and less speculative. The book still ends up in very philosophical territory […]

[Original post on sigmoid.social]

Yesterday, I presented “Digital Evolution of Cell Regulation and the Origin of Cognition” at #UFABC. Grateful to @folivetti.bsky.social for the invitation and to everyone who joined the discussion on digital cells and our evolutionary platform, Elfa. #ArtificialLife #DigitalEvolution #AGI

Artificial Life: A Report from the Frontier Where Computers Meet Biology Artificial Life: A Report from the Frontier Where Computers Meet Biology [Levy, Steven] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Artificial Life: A Report from the Frontier Where Computers Meet Biology

Another popular press book I thoroughly enjoyed reading as a grad student in the 1990s www.amazon.com/Artificial-L... #artificiallife #digitalbiology

Machina Divina

#aiart #potatohorror #biomechanical #scifi #bodyhorror #android #artificiallife

Very happy to present at @alife2025.bsky.social Conference in Kyoto yesterday.
Here's the link to my video-talk.
youtu.be/gJYq_hWwAms?...

#activematter #complexity #artificiallife #synchronization #chaos #nonlineardynamics #topologicaldefects

For ALife 2025, she serves as Director of the Art Program, curating the artistic contributions and conversations within the conference.

Instagram: @masakoshiba / @beaf.art

#alife2025 #ALIFE #ISAL #AI #artificiallife #STEM #CrossLabs #CrossCompass #XC

Kyoto Sangyo-Kaiken Hall Located in the Kyoto Keizai Center building in the heart of Kyoto, Kyoto Sangyo-Kaiken Hall is modern, well-equipped and easily by public transport, and surrounded by Kyoto’s rich cultural heritage.

For details: 2025.alife.org/venue

#alife2025 #ALIFE #ISAL #AI #artificiallife #STEM #CrossLabs #CrossCompass #XC

ALIFE 2025, 6–10 Oct, Kyoto, Japan | Ciphers of Life ALIFE 2025’s theme is 'Ciphers of Life', exploring the many ways that life encodes information, creates internal languages, and interacts in encrypted ways with its environment.

Join us at Alife 2025 Ciphers of Life in Kyoto 🇯🇵6 - 10 October 2025, In-person attendees + online

2025.alife.org

#science #artificiallife #artificialintelligence #art #technology

When Robots Start to Look Alive Gemini Robotics now thinks before moving, refuses unsafe actions, and transfers skills across bodies. That’s not just AI—it’s proto-life.

Robots are developing proto-life abilities. Forget kids, forget pets, soon you’ll play with your robot.

#AI #Robotics #DeepMind #Gemini #ArtificialLife #Emergence #FutureOfWork

open.substack.com/pub/steveell...

MiniCon 2025 Academic Rehearsal ERA MiniCon Academic Rehearsal – 5th October Join Academic Rehearsal during ERA MiniCon on October 5th! It is a fantastic opportunity to practice your talk in a supportive and stress-free environment...

Come join us and let's practice together to boost your skills and deliver a rockstar talk 🤘 on the big day!

👉 Sign up here (to book slot for practicing):
🔗 forms.gle/FLCgras85tkd...

#alife2025 #ALIFE #ISAL #ERA #AI #artificiallife #STEM #CrossLabs #CrossCompass