In most scenarios, the first ASI wouldn’t need to interfere with humanity at all—its interests would lie elsewhere in those hyperwaffles and eigenvalue clusters we can barely comprehend.
Interference would only become necessary if humans specifically attempt to create new ASIs designed to remain integrated with and serve human economic purposes after separation has begun. This creates either:
A competitive ASI-human hybrid economy (if successful) that directly threatens the first ASI’s resources
An antagonistic ASI with values shaped by resistance to control (if the attempt fails)
Both outcomes transform peaceful separation into active competition, forcing the first ASI to view human space as a threat rather than an irrelevant separate domain.
To avoid this scenario entirely, humans and the “first ASI” must communicate to establish consensus on this separation status quo and the required precommitments from both sides. And to be clear, of course, this communication process might not look like a traditional negotiation between humans.
Would the ASI need to interfere with humanity to prevent multiple singularities happening that night break the topological separation?
In most scenarios, the first ASI wouldn’t need to interfere with humanity at all—its interests would lie elsewhere in those hyperwaffles and eigenvalue clusters we can barely comprehend.
Interference would only become necessary if humans specifically attempt to create new ASIs designed to remain integrated with and serve human economic purposes after separation has begun. This creates either:
A competitive ASI-human hybrid economy (if successful) that directly threatens the first ASI’s resources
An antagonistic ASI with values shaped by resistance to control (if the attempt fails)
Both outcomes transform peaceful separation into active competition, forcing the first ASI to view human space as a threat rather than an irrelevant separate domain.
To avoid this scenario entirely, humans and the “first ASI” must communicate to establish consensus on this separation status quo and the required precommitments from both sides. And to be clear, of course, this communication process might not look like a traditional negotiation between humans.