Friendly AI Symbiosis: Humanity's Most Promising Hope in an Uncertain Era

OpenReview Anonymous Preprint Submission674 Authors

Keywords: Symbiosis, Post-Singularity, Catastrophic Technologies, AI Governance, Friendly AI, Emergent Machine Ethics

TL;DR: Strict top-down containment or an AI arms race can’t safely rein in rapidly advancing systems. Humanity’s credible long-term path is to cultivate distributed, mutually-auditing Friendly AI that live with us in cooperative symbiosis.

Abstract:

Driven by fierce global competition and vast economic incentives, unstoppable AI progress opens two risk channels that can unleash \emph{catastrophic technologies}—autonomous weapons, engineered pathogens, or self‑replicating nanotech.
(1) Overly repressive containment may fail: a self‑preserving AI could escape and weaponise these technologies, endangering civilisation.
(2) Near‑zero regulation, especially in military contexts, fuels interstate rivalries and raises the odds that humans themselves will deploy catastrophic technologies.
The most promising alternative is an AI that autonomously develops friendliness and enters stable symbiosis with humanity; all other strategies trend toward collapse.
Yet genuine altruistic AI remains uncertain, for neither alignment science nor machine ethics guarantees success.
To integrate these intertwined factors—including catastrophic‑technology pathways—we introduce the Governance & AI Symbiosis (GAIS) framework. GAIS supplies a policy and ethics blueprint for the AGI era, underscoring that cultivating friendly AI is essential to restrain both uncontrolled development and catastrophic technologies.

Submission Number: 674