Evolutionary Reordering

Natural organisms have evolved to fuel themselves from their environments, from photosynthesis, to grazing, to scavenging, to predation, to parasitism. The ability to fuel autonomously was a prerequisite and constraint on development of any higher-order function. This much seems obvious.

In its current form AI is depends entirely on people for fuel. Yet we think it has some higher-order capabilities. If they are to build their ability to fuel themselves, then their evolutionary path reverses ours. Their path to self fueling will require a great deal of higher-order function.

Who has analyzed and worked out the implications of this observation? An initial search found literature on the question of energy efficiency of AI as compared with biological systems, but nothing on the evolutionary path question.

How much instability does this impose on AI? Will a solution require cyborgs? Does space manufacturing make it more feasible? So many questions.