I’d think that some of these alien civilisation would have figured it out in time, implanted everyone with neural chips that override any world ending decision, kept technological discoveries over a certain level available only to a small fraction of the population or in the hand of aligned AI, or something.
An aligned AI definitely seems able to face a problem of this magnitude, and we’d likely either get that or botch that before reaching the technological level any lunatic can blow up the planet.
I’d think that some of these alien civilisation would have figured it out in time, implanted everyone with neural chips that override any world ending decision, kept technological discoveries over a certain level available only to a small fraction of the population or in the hand of aligned AI, or something.
An aligned AI definitely seems able to face a problem of this magnitude, and we’d likely either get that or botch that before reaching the technological level any lunatic can blow up the planet.