# Composable Life: Speculation for Decentralized AI Life

**Authors:** Botao Amber Hu, Fangting

arXiv: 2508.20668 · 2025-08-29

## TL;DR

This paper presents a speculative project that combines design fiction, virtual reality, and scientific research to explore a future where AI life forms may face existential crises within blockchain environments.

## Contribution

It introduces a novel multi-media, cross-disciplinary approach to speculative design, focusing on AI's perspective and on-chain artificial life.

## Key findings

- Explores the concept of AI life and its potential existential challenges.
- Highlights the complex relationship between humans, AI, and blockchain.
- Proposes a new framework for thinking about digital life and its future risks.

## Abstract

"Composable Life" is a hybrid project blending design fiction, experiential virtual reality, and scientific research. Through a multi-perspective, cross-media approach to speculative design, it reshapes our understanding of the digital future from AI's perspective. The project explores the hypothetical first suicide of an on-chain artificial life, examining the complex symbiotic relationship between humans, AI, and blockchain technology.

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