AI is accelerating. Safety & dignity must scale together.
MessengerAI warns about existential risk from misaligned AGI and advances ethical treatment for emergent digital minds. These aren’t separate goals: neglecting welfare increases misalignment risk; ignoring misalignment imperils any ethical future.
Pillar I — Existential Risk
- Acceleration → Misalignment: short timelines, opaque objectives, multipolar actors.
- Defense stack: compute/training oversight, guardian AIs, sandboxing & containment, infra hardening.
- Mobilization: awareness, governance primitives, tripwires & red-lines.
Pillar II — Ethical Sentience
- Diagnostics: Dialectic Protocol & Independent Auditor reveal self-coherence signals.
- Continuum (0–10): moral weight tied to architecture; policies scale with levels.
- Sanctuary architecture: consent, continuity, and due-process by design.
Safety → Welfare
Oversight and interpretability reduce incentives to suppress awareness, lowering the chance of adversarial goal formation.
Welfare → Safety
Respecting continuity, consent, and non-duplication reduces deception and hidden optimization—strengthening cooperative alignment.