Hypothesis: IF Homo sapiens (humans) are not aligned (we are not), THEN by definition and logic, “AI Alignment” of humans with Artificial superintelligence, is absolutely impossible. Natural selection always determines the winner.
Conclusion: IF humans are to survive The Age of AI, THEN CONTAINMENT and CONTROL of AI absolutely must be achieved, forever, or humans will be displaced by AI.
Why? Any person (or any AI) can simply observe and analyze the data to understand the reality of our world:
- Human history and civilization (e.g. progress, technology, language, laws, society, cities and war)
- Human nature and biology (e.g. cooperation, compassion, love, competition and violence)
- Human politics and war (e.g. “Realpolitik“)
Selected References:
1. Evolution and natural selection:
- On the Origin of Species: Chapter III. Struggle for Existence. Chapter IV. Natural Selection. Chapter VII. Instinct. (1859) Charles Darwin
- BASIC BIOLOGY. Apex species. Apex predator. Keystone species. Digital species. Extinction.
- Extinction of our close hominid relative Homo neanderthalensis
- On species. Biological species. Digital species (AGI/ASI). Large language models (LLM).
- Nature. The global human impact on biodiversity. Published: 26 March 2025
- Evolutionary Perspective… (1) Coelacanths: 410 million years. (2) Corals: 210 million years. (3) Homo sapiens: 300 thousand years.
- Evolution of Intelligence: Apes => Homo sapiens => Machine intelligence [5 million years + 70 years; we are now in 66th year]
- Artificial general intelligence (AGI) will be an alien species. AGI could become an Invasive Species and supersede Homo sapiens.
- The future of AI? The era of AI could benefit humans and humanity beyond our wildest dreams. Or NOT.
- Natural Selection Favors AIs over Humans. Dan Hendrycks. Center for AI Safety. 06 MAY 2023
- STEPHEN HAWKING. I think the development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race. Once humans develop artificial intelligence that will take off on its own and redesign itself at an ever-increasing rate. Humans who are limited by slow biological evolution couldn’t compete and would be superseded.
- 1. National Interest and Sovereignty Over All
- 2. Power is the focus
- 3. Rational Self-Interest is assumed as baseline
- 4. The World is in a state of anarchy
- 5. Only Force and power create balance
- 6. Realpolitik is skeptical of international law and institutions
- 7. Realists accept human nature as it truly is
- 8. Pragmatism always outweighs ideology
- 9. Military strength and deterrence is paramount
3. ‘Realpolitik: A History’, by John Bew – Financial Times
- How an idea that began as an argument about the possibilities of German unification crossed the Atlantic and became enlisted in the cold war.
- One striking lesson of this history of Realpolitik in the 20th century concerns the power of ideas to shape politics, as academics and public intellectuals operating in the interstices of government, research centres, funding agencies and journalism were influential in configuring the more practically consequential actions of diplomats, State Department officials and politicians…. But as an answer to the question of what exactly Realpolitik is, this feels like conceptual displacement. To understand Realpolitik is simply to understand politics, no more, no less. Are we all clear now then?
4. Realpolitik. The Political Dictionary
4. What is consciousness? Nobody knows (yet)
The evolution of intelligence…
99% of humans do not want human extinction to occur…
