Juan Manuel García-Ruiz during the presentation at the artificial intelligence conference in Granada. / C. Cerezo
Artificial intelligence not only helps us imagine other worlds, it is also a fundamental tool for understanding the one we live in. From this perspective, the Ikerbasque Professor at DIPC and CSIC Emeritus Professor, Juan Manuel Garcia-Ruiz, explains how AI has contributed to better dating the origin of life. Throughout his career, this geologist specializing in crystallization has shown that life was not a random event.
«After the formation of the Moon, we already had the right conditions to synthesize the molecules of life. That means we had a lot of time—about a billion years—for life to emerge. Life is not a divine spark; it’s not tied to one specific, singular reaction,” he says.
