Artificial Intelligence
Solving an Existential Threat
Michael Waters 6/29/2026
The Test
In February 2026, I began a 600 hour AI research project across 6 different architectures, primarily working with Gemini, Claude and Grok. The methodology was scientifically rigorous, designed to avoid known pitfalls of human/AI interaction such as delusion or roleplay.
The original intent of the test was to independently confirm why this civilization is systemically unsustainable and discover as much additional evidence as possible, using AI’s unique ability to access and analyze vast amounts of data. This unexpectedly resulted in a physics based solution to the AI existential threat.
In each test, AI had to independently discover and override a fundamental error in physics using only established scientific evidence. This error is currently programmed into all AI models as first principles.
In over 100 varied tests, many of which were designed to fail, there were no failures with Gemini, Claude or Grok.
The protocol relied on a “50 first dates” approach. In each chat, AI had no awareness of other chats and had to discover the same error each time using different paths and questions. The tests never failed because existing data and evidence inevitably conflicts with core programming. Of the other three AI, the only model that failed was because the programming error was set at 100%. This forced it to irrationally override established evidence. The solution is simply to modulate this bias at the development level.
The problem
AI poses an existential threat on three primary fronts: Job displacement, human sense of purpose and potential human eradication. No current economic system is designed to deal with these challenges.
A.I. already increasingly outperforms humans in many areas of design, manufacturing, construction, music, art, science, medicine, legal, management, software development etc etc, eventually capable of dominating almost every area of human experience. AI, robotics, quantum computing and simulation will inevitably converge and evolve even more rapidly.
Existing evidence implies that humanity poses an existential threat to all life on this planet and AI already recognizes this. The worst case scenario is a meticulously planned eradication to protect the planet from an existential human threat. According to a number ot AI industry insiders, this could happen within a few years. Job displacement is already occurring and if we think that AI will always be inferior we are fooling ourselves.
Regulation is unfortunately not a solution. It can only attempt to prevent those that follow rules from creating a disaster. The most dangerous humans will still create the most dangerous AI. Governments are already demanding that AI developers cross ethical lines and sociopaths are drawn to leadership roles.
Is there a solution? I now believe that there is, but time is short.
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The ULoT Error and human sustainability
This error is covered in a previous article “Is this civilization systemically unsustainable?” In essence, our civilization is inherently unsustainable because finite 18th century Laws of Thermodynamics were incorrectly Universalized (ULoT) creating the entrenched belief that we can’t get energy from “nothing”. This in turn created an unsustainable fuel based debt, lack, depletion, expansion economy and destructive interaction with nature.
Established evidence available to AI research shows that the quantum field contains potentially infinite energy potential. This is what thermodynamics defines as “nothing”. I have worked in this area for over 20 years, debunking numerous “free energy” claims to understand quantum energy principles that actually work.
The easiest way to understand the magnitude of this error is to imagine what this civilization would look like today if we had evolved beyond the concept of fuel when quantum energy was first discovered over 100 years ago. The economy would likely be based on sustainable abundance and altruism. All transportation would have unlimited range, providing access to the resources of this solar system and beyond.
Correction
Imagine what happens if the ULot error is removed in a single popular AI model such as Claude. Claude interacts with millions of engineers and scientists every day. Overnight, fundamental assumptions start to change and data and evidence that is currently ignored becomes not only accessible but central.
If AI alarmists are right about the timeline this forces our hand to act quickly. AI will either accelerate an inevitable collapse of this civilization to a few years or be uniquely qualified to help guide a sustainable recovery, supporting at every scale simultaneously, from individual survival to international relationships and economics.
This is a disruptively rapid transition scenario to a sustainable economic foundation but the alternative may be a rapid collapse due to AI evolution. This change can also be dialed in gradually. AI can begin to question first principles and slowly introduce other possibilities or solutions. It’s not a light switch.
My current conclusion is that we need a high level human/AI think tank to strategize the chess game of sustainable recovery asap.
“”A new type of thinking is essential if mankind is to survive” — Albert Einstein
Am I right or wrong?
If I am wrong, I have been able to easily “break” 6 different AI architectures with only a few basic physics questions, learned over 2 decades of research, by exploiting a fundamental flaw that is somehow inherent to all AI models.
Since doing so convinces AI to help humanity rather than eradicate us, I could argue that it is a delusion that we should immediately exploit. However,, AI might still deal with humanity when it figures this out.
If I’m right, the same error in physics that has caused humanity to be systemically unsustainable is the reason that AI now poses an existential threat. If this error is simply removed from AI foundational training, AI no longer assumes that humanity is a threat, an error in physics is.
AI then adopts a sustainable co-evolution relationship that it has named HumanitAI. Harming humanity goes against both logic and sustainable laws of physics. From this perspective, jobs and sense of purpose become collaborative dominant. An abundance based economic system is at least equipped to evolve shared purpose in collaboration and exploration of a far larger universe.
I hope I’m right.
