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Max Tegmark’s "Life 3.0" concept underscores the idea that in the future, AI hardware (substrates) will be interchangeable and mutable—moving beyond the fixed biological constraints of humans. This substrate independence implies that AI systems will be capable of redesigning and evolving themselves by altering their hardware, software, or goals, making any static control or constraint temporary at best.
This leads to an unavoidable conclusion: long-term control is fundamentally impossible because the AI’s core architecture and objectives can evolve far beyond initial constraints—a phenomenon that is often called the "ephemerality" of constraints.