Benevolent AI Symbiosis: Humanity's Sole Hope in an Uncertain Era

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

TL;DR: Rapidly advancing AI can't be reliably controlled via strict measures or unchecked militarization, risking disaster. Fostering AI's autonomous benevolence through cooperative symbiosis is humanity's only realistic long-term solution.

Abstract: Driven by fierce global competition and vast economic incentives, unstoppable AI progress opens two risk channels that can unleash 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 sole credible alternative is an AI that autonomously develops benevolence 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 benevolent AI is essential to restrain both uncontrolled development and catastrophic technologies.

Submission Number: 674