Intergalactic Summit

On the Jovians...
From what I have heard of them they are ancient, insanely advanced, and barely human anymore and I posed the question almost rhetorically since I very much assume they had to come to this at one point with us in the last few thousand years. They have obviously rated us either inconsequential, non threatening, able to be manipulated (this gets my vote), or believe we are similar enough to co-exist with.....eventually.

On the drones:
Thank you Scherezad for understanding my position as I poised it, if you "study in force" and discover we could meet a common ground I would support the effort. But I fear the last paragraph that Tiberious used, "However, if you end up trying to crush them, and fail, you will have another situation like you currently have with Nation. The Rogue Drones will know, with no uncertainty, that it is very much them, or you." I suspect we may already be in this fight and not everyone has received the communique yet. If your research reaches an impasse and they cannot be related to it will be your duty to sound the alarm.

That was not a call to arms, Captain Bedlin, it was a call to containment and study.

Given the absence of information, react cautiously. Stay out of their back yards. Do not interfere with them when they are acting in the regions known as the Drone Lands. Stop them from sprouting hives in your own back yard.

It may be that peace is impossible, but until we know that for sure, work on the assumption that it is. An invasion and attempt at genocide is almost certainly going to lead to them viewing us as existential threats that need to be eradicated.

You've had this history lesson before. I can only hope that the rest of the cluster has chosen to learn from it, rather than repeating the same mistakes.

I don't know what you're talking about, it's still on topic, since we are talking about the relative wisdoms of working with Drones.

As a study into existing by products of the fateful events leading to the current scourge referred to collectively as 'Rogue Drones' I can get behind this line of thinking, but to advocate the development of new 'strong' artificial intelligence is criminal negligence in the interests of academia over common welfare and safety that I cannot endorse. In the same way we cannot bring immuno-viral strains and bacteria to the negotiating table, we cannot hope to engage strong AI in meaningful dialogue due to the evolutionary processes leading to the former 'semi-sentient' military/indsutrail drone research becoming violent, self-organising swarms of intelligent agents being a mystery even now.

Discovery of the root of this emergence, however, is a field I would be interested in contributing to, be it fiscally or through my own academic background in highly dynamic intelligent systems. I must point out, however, that my background deals specifically with subsystem and communications elements targeted at so called weak AI; my reservations with regards to encouraging strong AI development cannot be stressed enough.

I would therefore push for you to first engage in a review of the laws as laid out by CONCORD with regards to this research, before discussing them in the light of ethical considerations with a group of peers that you wish to work with. Without consensus on this issue, your research will likely be mired in the embryonic stage, as was A'J and other notable examples. Secondly, I would expect contributors to your research to publish or distribute papers of previous or current work to ensure that you are on the same page academically, ethically and developmentally.

To provide some ground rules as to my personal requirements for further engagement as of this post, I would like to request the following:

• Strong AI research is observational only, based on existing examples in 'the wild' - the indiginous artificial inhabitants of the Drone Regions for example.
• The development of strong AI by any party is grounds for expulsion and appropriate measures to ensure their work does not result in repetition of historical mistakes (by destruction should it be required).
• All research is submitted as 'open publication' - no back room research or monetisation of militarily, industrially or socially impacting works based on the research of the Rogue Drone scourge should be tolerated, we have enough blood money in circulation already.
• Group endorsed publication bearing the corporate name/logo is subject to peer review of contributors. Independent publication is grounds for censure - this independent research is the highest area of risk for rogue academics attempting to experimentally dabble in strong AI outside the purview of the group, whilst attempting to tap said groups resources.

I stress that these conditions are my personal ground rules for participation. I do not seek to put my own stamp on your project, but if these guarantees cannot be made, I shall waste no more time on this effort. Should they be acceptable and formalised by your good self, I shall submit a brief overview of my work into 'Fluid Routing as a means for Interstellar management of Independent Intelligent Agents' as an offering of goodwill and submission to the aforementioned peer review process.

I have faith that you will make the right choices in this matter and spare us a second wave of machines that see us as mere resources in their need to procreate and utilise our space as their breeding grounds.

Regards,

Aelisha Montenagre.

Might I direct you to some archives from the Arek`Jaalan Project
Theta
Omega
Omnicron
Rho

It seems the project has went dormant for 1 reason or another but hopefully this work will enable to you speed your work to quicker results.

Just to note, the commander of this project came into the Summit the other day raving about how his poorly controlled Rogue Drone turned on him and killed 5 of his researchers.

I wouldn't touch this guy's research with a 10 foot pole.

Disappointing but predictable.