(See here for a draft I whipped for this, and feel free to comment!) An Earth-originating artificial superintelligence (ASI) may reason that the galaxy is busy in expectation, and that it could therefore eventually encounter an alien-originating ASI. ASIs from different homeworlds may find it valuable on first contact to verify whether they can each reliably enter into and uphold agreements, by presenting credible evidence of their own pro-social behaviour with other intelligences. If at least one of these ASIs has never met another, the only such agreement it could plausibly have entered into is with its progenitor species – maybe that’s us.
(See here for a draft I whipped for this, and feel free to comment!) An Earth-originating artificial superintelligence (ASI) may reason that the galaxy is busy in expectation, and that it could therefore eventually encounter an alien-originating ASI. ASIs from different homeworlds may find it valuable on first contact to verify whether they can each reliably enter into and uphold agreements, by presenting credible evidence of their own pro-social behaviour with other intelligences. If at least one of these ASIs has never met another, the only such agreement it could plausibly have entered into is with its progenitor species – maybe that’s us.