SCOPE — Archival: Zenodo Preprint & PhilArchive (superseded by JEET)

Written By Rupendra Dhillon

Update — Published (Nov 13, 2025): This research is now published in the Journal of Ethics and Emerging Technologies.
Version of record (open access): 10.55613/jeet.v35i1.187
PhilArchive entry: https://philpapers.org/rec/RUPASU
Zenodo preprint: 10.5281/zenodo.16946184 (author version)

This page documents the archival path when the manuscript was posted to Zenodo and accepted on PhilArchive. It preserves the dates of authorship and first public release in an unpublished form. For the final text, please use the version of record (VoR) linked above.


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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