Optimising peace through a Universal Global Peace Treaty to constrain the risk of war from a militarised artificial superintelligence.

ABSTRACT: This article argues that an artificial superintelligence (ASI) emerging in a world where war is still normalised constitutes a catastrophic existential risk, either because the ASI might be employed by a nation-state to war for global domination, i.e., ASI-enabled warfare, or because the ASI wars on behalf of itself to establish global domination, i.e., ASI-directed warfare. Presently, few states declare war or even war on each other, in part due to the 1945 UN Charter, which states Member States should "refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force", while allowing for UN Security Council-endorsed military measures and self-defense. As UN Member States no longer declare war on each other, instead, only 'international armed conflicts' occur. However, costly inter

SUBMITTER: Carayannis EG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8748529 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature