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Executive summary: To protect humanity from existential risks posed by advanced technologies, we must develop an aligned superintelligent "Guardian AI" to preemptively eliminate these risks, which requires achieving both technical AI alignment and political AI governance.

Key points:

The "vulnerable world hypothesis" posits that beyond a certain level of technological advancement, existential risks to humanity will dramatically increase unless unprecedented preventive measures are taken.
Eliminating existential risks in advance is likely biologically impossible for humans due to the immense challenges involved, such as making accurate long-term predictions and developing defensive technologies.
Delegating the task of protecting humanity to a superintelligent "Guardian AI" is proposed as the only viable solution, as it could preemptively predict and address existential risks.
Two critical conditions must be met to realize a safe and beneficial Guardian AI: solving the technical challenge of "AI alignment" to ensure the AI follows human values and intentions, and establishing the political frameworks for global "AI governance".
Organizations and decision-makers worldwide should strongly support and prioritize AI alignment research and AI governance initiatives, as they are crucial for safely transitioning to a post-Singularity future.

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If technology continues to develop at its current pace, there is a high likelihood that "technology capable of certainly destroying civilization" will become widely available to the general public within the next few years to decades. As a result, the catastrophic risks (i.e., existential risks) that could lead to the collapse of civilization are expected to increase significantly. This paper examines the "vulnerable world hypothesis" proposed by Nick Bostrom and proposes methods to address the existential risks associated with future technological innovations.

In conclusion, to sufficiently eliminate the existential risks associated with technological innovation, a "guardian AI" with superhuman capabilities will be necessary. This paper argues that by utilizing this "guardian AI," all x-risks can be preemptively and perfectly eliminated. However, two conditions must be met to realize a guardian AI: AI alignment and AI govern...

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