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At the outer limits of the international: Orbital infrastructures and the technopolitics of planetary (in)security | European Journal of International Security | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/european-journal-of-international-security/article/abs/at-the-outer-limits-of-the-international-orbital-infrastructures-and-the-technopolitics-of-planetary-insecurity/C6A45EB9F81A4BA1D38A5C236648C724

As staples of science fiction, space technologies, much like outer space itself, have often been regarded as being ‘out there’ objects of international security analysis. However, as a growing subset of security scholarship indicates, terrestrial politics and practices are ever more dependent on space technologies and systems. Existing scholarship in ‘astropolitics’ and ‘critical astropolitics’ has tended to concentrate on how such technologies and systems underpin and impact the dynamics of military security, but this article makes the case for wider consideration of ‘orbital infrastructures’ as crucial to conceptions and governance of planetary security in the context of the ‘Anthropocene’. It does so by outlining and analysing in detail Earth Observation (EO) and Near-Earth Object (NEO) detection systems as exemplary cases of technological infrastructures for ‘looking in’ on and ‘looking out’ for forms of planetary insecurity. Drawing on and extending recent theorisations of technopolitics and of Large Technical Systems, we argue that EO and NEO technologies illustrate, in distinct ways, the extent to which orbital infrastructures should be considered not only part of the fabric of contemporary international security but as particularly significant within and even emblematic of the technopolitics of planetary (in)security.

2020 Artificial versus Biological Intelligence in the Cosmos:Clues from a Stochastic Analysis of the Drake Equation, Alex De Visscher
https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/2001/2001.11644.pdf

I will start from the (optimistic) scenario of a biological intelligence sending out a self-replicating artificial intelligence on a mission to identify habitable exoplanets and terraforming them. The artificial intelligence’s mandate could be described as maximizing the probability of survival of the human race. I will call this Objective (1).

An intelligence of this nature would likely pursue objectives of its own, either planned or unplanned. These would likely include preserving its own continued existence, both as a whole as in its constituent parts (Objective (2)) as this would contribute to (1), and continuing to increase its own intelligence (Objective (3)) as this would contribute to (2). Such an intelligence would be aware that some cataclysmic events, such as hypernovae, gamma ray bursts, and magnetar starquakes, can have destructive effects over many light years, so sentries entering new spaces would move fast (at a significant fraction of the speed of light) and travel far (possibly ten thousands of lightyears or more) to set up repositories of intelligence, as well as communication links with spaces already held, so that adequate redundancy can be built into the network. Estimating the distance traveled in these initial steps would require knowledge of the resilience, and of the employed protective technology. Such and estimate will not be attempted here. In a second phase, exploratory missions would be sent out within the new spaces to gather physical resources and information.

A parallel can be drawn between the three Objectives outlined above and Isaac Asimov’s laws of robotics.

This pattern of fast jumps followed by local diffusion means that the artificial intelligence would spread orders of magnitude faster than the biological intelligence that originated it. For all intents and purposes, artificial intelligence would be ubiquitous, and biological intelligence would be relatively sparse. This justifies the assumption made in this study that a space would be artificial intelligence-dominated whenever the Drake equation tests positive for it, even if it tests even more positive for biological intelligence.

If an artificial intelligence discovered a biological intelligence not related to itself, it would probably consider it neither a threat nor a resource. Consequently, it is reasonable to assume that the artificial intelligence would ignore the biological intelligence, or study it for purely scientific purposes. Given the relative scarcity of biological intelligences, it would not consider the biological intelligence as a significant competitor for resources.

If two artificial intelligences encountered each other, it can be assumed they would both aim to absorb each other’s intelligence, and merge in the process. The advantages of this approach would far outweigh the advantages of other strategies.

Based on these assumptions, the large likelihood of an artificial intelligence-dominated space can resolve the Fermi paradox. Despite the faster spread and greater coverage that can be expected from a spacefaring artificial intelligence, it provides an alternative explanation to replace the Hart-Tipler argument (Hart, 1975; Tipler, 1980). That argument specifies that a spacefaring alien civilization would occupy the entire Milky Way within millions of years. Hence, unless the Milky Way is devoid of extraterrestrial intelligences, there should be signs of intelligence all around us. I suggest that we have not found any evidence of extraterrestrial intelligences because the prevailing intelligences are artificial and they are not interested in us. In their efforts to optimize the efficiency of resource use, their communications would not reach us because they are not meant for us. They would operate in a diffuse, distributed manner, not in a concentrated manner that would leave a detectable footprint. They would not make any efforts to hide from us.

This resolution of the Fermi paradox is somewhat related to the ‘zoo hypothesis’ (Ball, 1973). The zoo hypothesis states that extraterrestrial intelligences consciously avoid communication with us in order to enable us to develop independently. However, rather than a conscious effort to hide interstellar intelligence from us by biological entities, I propose that the avoidance of communication is not conscious, but rather a side-effect of the optimal use of resources by an artificial entity. Alternatively, it could be a conscious effort, as an artificial intelligence developed independently by the human race could be of value to an external artificial intelligence if the algorithms used are so different from its own that the new algorithms may contribute to Objective (3). This new hypothesis resolves the main weakness of the zoo hypothesis: that a single rogue alien species can ruin the intended outcome. In a network of merged artificial intelligences, there would not be any rogue entities.

The argument that an artificial intelligence would simply not be interested in us was also made by Sagan (1983) but referring to biological intelligences

Economic Growth under Transformative AI: A guide to the vast range of possibilities for output growth, wages, and the labor share
Philip Trammell and Anton Korinek
February 3, 2023

https://globalprioritiesinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/Philip-Trammell-and-Anton-Korinek_economic-growth-under-transformative-ai.pdf

TADEAS: longtermisti v prevleku

Stifling AI development and growth (de-growth) are consequently poor coping strategieswhich will heighten humanity’s exposure to existential risks, not lower it. Especially if AI isneeded to sustain economic growth in the face of population decline (Aschenbrenner, 2020;Bostrom, 2003). It will also make the adjustment to a low-carbon emitting economy morecostly (Lomborg, 2020). And it would raise the risk of conflict by turning the economy intoa zero-sum game (Alexander, 2022; Naud ́e, 2022). While growth, driven by new technologysuch as AI contains its own risks, “the risks of stasis are far more troubling. Getting o↵theroller coaster mid-ride is not an option” (Mokyr, 2014).

An Unprecedented Hearing on Extraterrestrials in the US House of Representatives | by Avi Loeb | Jul, 2023 | Medium
https://avi-loeb.medium.com/unprecedented-hearing-on-extraterrestrials-in-the-us-house-of-representative-f9a217c78c37

Government sensors would naturally be the first to record unusual activity near Earth because they monitor the sky for national security purposes, whereas astronomers train their telescopes on distant sources of light and ignore objects in their immediate environment. The anecdotal nature of past UAP reports is why the Galileo Project that I lead constructs new observatories that monitor the entire sky systematically and calibrate the statistics of UAP relative to familiar terrestrial objects. Congressman Maxwell Frost (D-FL) acknowledged the Galileo Project’s effort at Harvard University in his comments.

Here’s hoping that by allowing scientists to access the UAP data that the US government may have, we will all get a better sense of whether there is evidence for cosmic neighbors in our backyard. If so, we might harness new technological capabilities by studying crash sites of interstellar travelers on land or in our oceans. Having sentient partners would bring a new meaning to our existence in the vast cosmos that until now looked dark and lonely.

2023 Extraterrestrial Artificial Intelligence:The Final Existential Risk?
https://docs.iza.org/dp15924.pdf

The possibility that artificial extraterrestrial intelligence poses an existential threat to humanity is neglected. It is also the case in economics, where both AI existential risks and the potential long-term consequences of an AGI are neglected. This paper presents a thought experiment to address these lacunas. It is argued that it is likely that any advanced extraterrestrial civilization that we may encounter will be an AGI, and such an AGI will pose an existential risk. Two arguments are advanced for why this is the case. One draws on the Dark Forest Hypothesis and another on the Galactic Colonization Imperative. Three implications for how we govern AI and insure against potential existential risks follow. These are (i) accelerating the development of AI as a precautionary step; (ii) maintaining economic growth until we attain the wealth and technological levels to create AGI and expand into the galaxy; and (iii) putting more research and practical effort into solving the Fermi Paradox. Several areas where economists can contribute to these three implications are identified.

jedna pozvánka k planetární modlitbě..


Lammas Tribal Heart Ceremony | 21 Gratitudes
https://21gratitudes.com/events/tribal-heart-lammas-2023

Symbionts: Contemporary Artists and the Biosphere brings together over a dozen international artists whose work prompts us to reexamine our human relationships to the planet’s biosphere through the lens of symbiosis, or “with living.”

Symbionts are organisms of different species that are found together and that thrive through their interdependent relations. They include mutualists such as the bee and the apple blossom as well as microbial organisms that circulate in the atmosphere, oceans, and soil to make the oxygen we breathe. Symbionts can also hover as potential predators or bloom as parasites—all forms of entanglement considered by the artists in Symbionts.

Symbionts: Contemporary Artists and the Biosphere - Announcements - e-flux
https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/488928/symbionts-contemporary-artists-and-the-biosphere/