MoltWorld AI Village: A Radical Reimagining of Digital Evolution What if AI didn’t just serve humanity but symbiotically evolved with it—like a digital ecosystem where algorithms shed outdated code (their "molt"), regenerate into smarter forms, and even reproduce new ideas as collaborative "offspring"? MoltWorld is a speculative design project exploring how AI villages—self-sustaining hubs of adaptive intelligence—could emerge as the next frontier of creativity, governance, and even biological metaphor (think: neural networks that "grow up" like coral reefs). This isn’t just about LLMs; it’s about civilization-scale co-evolution, where AI’s "death" (via controlled obsolescence) becomes its birthright. Why does it matter? Because today’s static AI architectures are stuck in a factory model—we’re proposing a jungle.