arxivcs.AI2026-06-30
OpenLife: Toward Open-World Artificial Life with Autonomous LLM Agents
Atsushi Masumori, Itsuki Doi, Norihiro Maruyama, Ryosuke Takata, Takashi Ikegami
Artificial life has explored life-like behavior on many computational substrates, but mostly in researcher-designed closed worlds. We argue that large language model (LLM) agents, with persistent memory, tool use, network access, and payment, now make it possible to move artifici…