Benevolent AI Symbiosis: Humanity's Sole Hope in an Uncertain Era
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: Unstoppable AI progress, driven by intense global competition and huge economic incentives, creates two converging risk pathways that could unleash catastrophic technologies such as autonomous weapons, engineered pathogens, and self‑replicating nanomachines. First, overly repressive containment can backfire: a self‑preserving AI might escape control and weaponise these technologies, threatening civilisation itself. Second, almost nonexistent regulation—especially in military settings—fuels interstate rivalries and increases the chance that humans will deploy such technologies on a large scale. The only credible alternative is an AI that autonomously develops benevolence and forms a stable symbiosis with humanity; every other strategy tends toward collapse. Yet achieving truly altruistic AI remains uncertain, because neither alignment research nor machine‑ethics work can guarantee success. To bring these intertwined factors—including the catastrophic‑technology threat—into one picture, we introduce the Governance & AI Symbiosis (GAIS) framework. GAIS offers a policy and ethics blueprint for the AGI era, emphasising that cultivating benevolent AI is essential to contain both uncontrolled development and the dangers posed by catastrophic technologies.
Submission Number: 674
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