it is impossible for AI to ever be programmed well enough to count as lifeforms, because life is regulated by DNA, which we can manipulate, but we cannot incorporate computers into it
when the universe was created is not a philosophical topic, unless a lot of you are staunch christians that believe in creation, then it's not a debate, because there's the creationist view of, what, a thousand years or something silly like that, and the right answer, which i forget, because entry-level physics ended a couple months ago, but it's somewhere in the hundred billions of years ago