Superintelligent surveillance to prevent galactic anarchy
Forethought examines the benefits and risks of having a "nightwatchman" – a superintelligent AI tasked with enforcing a universal code of behavior – aboard every probe that leaves the solar system during future galactic colonization.
A nightwatchman on every probe: Superintelligent surveillance to prevent galactic anarchy 1st September 2026 A nightwatchman on every probe: Superintelligent surveillance to prevent galactic anarchy One utopian vision for space expansion involves a libertarian explosion of diversity, with everyone and their robot setting up different sorts of societies and governance structures.1 We might call such a future ‘galactic anarchy’. On Earth, while there is anarchy between nation states, within a country the government enforces contracts, protects property rights, and provides for collective…
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