# Luc Steels **Entity class:** Concept or analytic term > **Machine-Evolution Nexus:** [[articles/Digital Darwinism and the Invisible World of Machine Evolution|Digital Darwinism and the Invisible World of Machine Evolution]] places this node within the history and governance of substrate-independent evolution. **Domain:** Artificial Intelligence / Language Evolution **Doc Type:** Canonical Wiki Node **Maturity:** Developed ## Definition Luc Steels is an AI researcher known for work on language, robotics and the emergence of communication in interacting agents. ## Nexus Context He coauthored the 2026 evolvable-AI paper, bringing artificial-intelligence and agent-population perspectives into major-transition theory. ## Evidence Boundary Agent interaction and emergent convention are relevant precursors but do not by themselves satisfy all Darwinian conditions. ## Relationships [[wiki/Evolvable AI|Evolvable AI]], [[wiki/Viktor Müller|Viktor Müller]], [[wiki/Eörs Szathmáry|Eörs Szathmáry]], [[wiki/Agentic AI|Agentic AI]] <!-- BEGIN HUMANIZED RELATIONSHIPS 2026-09-11 --> This entry's documented connections are expressed in its definition and related-work routes, with provenance retained in the source-linked material. <!-- END HUMANIZED RELATIONSHIPS 2026-09-11 --> ## Sources / Provenance - PNAS author record; Steels’s language-evolution research.