Crossposted from the AI Alignment Forum. May contain more technical jargon than usual.
Escape. Invest in space travel and escape the solar system before they arrive.
If your AI timelines are long, this may be a viable strategy for preserving the human species in the event of unaligned AGI.
In your AI timelines are short, a budget solution is to just send human brains into space and hope they will be found and revived by other powerful species (hopefully at least one of them is "benevolent").
You wake up tomorrow, and find out that super-smart and powerful aliens are arriving here in 10 years. We don't know anything about them other than the fact that they're super smart and powerful: e.g, their minds run on giant computers at THz clock speeds, they can integrate planets' worth of sensor data at once, they can do direct mass to energy conversion in their spaceships, they have weapons capable of destroying our planet in an instant, etc etc.
What do you, personally, do?
What should humanity overall do?
I think the answers to these questions shine a very important light on overlooked AGI alignment strategies. Rather than seeing the arrival of AGI as a technological change, we can see it as the arrival of a potentially competing / potentially collaborating species. Approximate intuition pump: humans :: AGI : animals :: humans -- if you were an emu (about to be hunted to extinction), how would you negotiate with the humans? If you were a monkey, how would you negotiate with the humans?
What are the frameworks we would use to negotiate with supersmart powerful aliens, or which animals might use to negotiate with people?
Can you think of any more?