# Viktor Müller **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:** Philosophy of AI / Evolvable AI **Doc Type:** Canonical Wiki Node **Maturity:** Developed ## Definition Viktor Müller is a philosopher and researcher of artificial intelligence, cognition and AI risk. ## Nexus Context With Luc Steels and Eörs Szathmáry he coauthored the 2026 PNAS paper arguing that AI components and deployment ecologies could become Darwinian populations. ## Evidence Boundary The paper advances a risk argument and governance proposal, not a finding that an uncontrolled AI ecosystem already exists. ## Relationships [[wiki/Evolvable AI|Evolvable AI]], [[wiki/Luc Steels|Luc Steels]], [[wiki/Eörs Szathmáry|Eörs Szathmáry]], [[wiki/AI Safety|AI Safety]] <!-- 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 - Müller, Steels and Szathmáry, _PNAS_ (2026); author affiliations in PubMed.