I was just in Kyoto a couple of months ago for the Artificial Life conference. It was interesting to see many participants tapping into the idea of symbiogenesis. Blaise Agüera y Arcas gave a keynote there, arguing against training a super large model from conversations around the world and forcing it to act in a dyadic way. That approach does not work for both energy-based and norm-based reasons. It is much better to go the other way around: to co-evolve. We should not treat AI agents as oracles, but rather put them into a “civic gym,” a gymnasium, ensuring they can co-evolve with other AI agents and humans. This is called organic alignment. The Softmax team was also there and gave a technical demo.