The word lithotroph has historically been associated with the origins of organic life. The word comes from the ancient Greek and means “eater of rocks”. As a biological organism, a bacteria, it lived off inorganic matter. So what if lithotroph also applied to a mechanical being that used power from sunlight and/or nuclear energy? The “rocks” actually being He3. Helium-3. The primary source of He3 in the future will be the farside of the Moon since the most plentiful source is the solar wind.
This AI Lithotroph is the invention of another form of life. Not just intelligence, but life itself. Life and consciousness comes to AI.