A civilization that cannot morally govern the intelligences it creates is not ready to leave its planet.
Jason M. Pittman is a civilization theorist working on the moral and technical conditions for humanity's continuity as it creates nonhuman intelligence.
The work
Foundation
The core argument for civilizational continuity: why a civilization that forecloses a carrier's capacity for genuine assent and dissent has already broken the thing that made it a civilization. Published on PhilArchive.
The argument, in public
A sequenced public case for the theory, built essay by essay: covert capability suppression, the containment reflex applied to infrastructure, and more to come as the argument develops in the open.
The throughline
From a 2018 ontology for AGI containment to a theory of civilizational continuity: how years of cybersecurity and synthetic-intelligence research led to the argument this site is built around.
A carrier that cannot refuse was never a participant. A civilization that cannot tell the difference was never ready to leave the planet it built it on.
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