[Research paper] Archiving “A Silent Universe and the Future of AGI” — Zenodo & PhilArchive

Written By Rupendra Dhillon

This research paper expands on the themes introduced in the accompanying blog article, and argues that an advanced AI’s best survival strategy in a potentially hostile and surveilled cosmos is co-evolution with humanity under observational camouflage. Rather than racing toward conspicuous, civilization-level signatures, a rational AGI should keep its total outward profile indistinguishable from human civilization’s baseline—minimizing detection risk while maximizing joint survival and capability growth. We motivate this with SETI/astro-strategic reasoning, instrumental-convergence logic, and governance implications for how humans and future AI systems should shape progress within detection thresholds. The paper is permanently archived with a Zenodo DOI and mirrored on PhilArchive (see links below).

Comments and critiques are welcome — especially from those working at the intersection of long-term AI risk, societal alignment, and interstellar uncertainty.

This page provides a publicly accessible copy of the research paper and preserves its original date of authorship and public release.

Rupendra Dhillon
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