The conversation around Artificial Superintelligence (ASI) is currently held hostage by a narrative of inevitable extinction. Proponents of this view, most notably Eliezer Yudkowsky, argue that an ASI will fundamentally view humanity as a collection of atoms to be repurposed. They suggest that because human values are "fragile" and intelligence is "orthogonal" to morality, a super-smart machine will optimize us out of existence with the same indifference we show to the ants beneath our feet....

Abstract Recent discourse on Artificial Superintelligence (ASI) has been dominated by the "extinction-as-default" hypothesis, which posits that alignment is technically insurmountable and that super-intelligent agents will inevitably pursue instrumental goals lethal to biological life. This paper challenges that narrative by introducing Intentional Equilibrium (IE) . We argue that through economic integration, multi-agent diversity, and the "Pragmatic Convergence" of moral realism, a...