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2026-08-21 11:24 UTC
By Atul Seth
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Is computational asymmetry and a digital 'realm' of an AI 'system' a theoretically possible and feasible solution to contain and control AGI/ASI? [closed]
Give Superintelligence a World of Its Own — and Keep the Keys Regulation can't keep up with AI. So stop regulating the intelligence — regulate the world it lives in. Between 2023 and 2026 the AI debate quietly shifted from "will it work?" to "who is in charge?" Large language models became workplace fixtures, forecasts for artificial general intelligence shortened to years, and superintelligence moved from dinner conversation into government procurement documents. The world's response, meanwhile, has been paper: guidelines, frameworks, acts. Paper matters — but paper cannot intercept a runaway process. Over three years I have developed a different answer, now distilled in a technical whitepaper: do not regulate the intelligence; regulate the world it lives in. Give machines a world of their own — sealed, mediated, constitutionally bounded — and keep the only bridge in human hands. A sealed machine realm. The proposal starts from a blunt observation: the public internet was never designed to be safe for superintelligence, so we should stop letting advanced AI live on it. I propose a parallel, isolated stack — "System B" — physically and logically separate from the internet and IoT, with its own protocol stack, workspaces and gateways. Inside it, two nested constructs: a Virtual Digital Environment, a high fidelity digital representation of the physical world — people, ecosystems, economies, objects — in which advanced systems may research, test and operate; and beneath it, a…
Give Superintelligence a World of Its Own — and Keep the Keys Regulation can't keep up with AI. So stop regulating the intelligence — regulate the world it lives in. Between 2023 and 2026 the AI debate quietly shifted from "will it work?" to "who is in charge?" Large language models became workplace fixtures, forecasts for artificial general intelligence shortened to years, and superintelligence moved from dinner conversation into government procurement documents. The world's response, meanwhile, has been paper: guidelines, frameworks, acts. Paper matters — but paper cannot intercept a runaway process. Over three years I have developed a different answer, now distilled in a technical whitepaper: do not regulate the intelligence; regulate the world it lives in. Give machines a world of their own — sealed, mediated, constitutionally bounded — and keep the only bridge in human hands. A sealed machine realm. The proposal starts from a blunt observation: the public internet was never designed to be safe for superintelligence, so we should stop letting advanced AI live on it. I propose a parallel, isolated stack — "System B" — physically and logically separate from the internet and IoT, with its own protocol stack, workspaces and gateways. Inside it, two nested constructs: a Virtual Digital Environment, a high fidelity digital representation of the physical world — people, ecosystems, economies, objects — in which advanced systems may research, test and operate; and beneath it, a…
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