¡°Shifting the Paradigm¡± in Superintelligence

Sharply increased uncertainty and possibility of catastrophes warrant a new approach to decision-making. To survive Superintelligence, mankind should downgrade its role - from ¡°an agent¡± that has a will and a preservation goal of its own, to just a tool that yields the power of making decisions to humans ¨C possibly Risk-Constrained Optimization (RCO). RCO is a fundamentally novel system dealing with decision-making under radical uncertainty. Instead of ¡°the best strategy¡± RCO constructs a ¡°strategy, most acceptable to decision-makers.¡± RCO develops a number of candidate strategies, filters them and presents to the decision-makers a few reasonably good and safe candidates, easily adaptable to a broad range of future scenarios - likely, ¡°black swan,¡± and even improbable. The final selection of the strategy to be implemented is performed judgmentally by decision-makers. RCO overturns upside down Economics, Operations Research/Management Science, Decision Analysis, Scenario Planning, and Risk Management. The new paradigm of Superintelligence becomes preservation of mankind. RCO is just a toolkit. It can be used in any system. But, as far as this author knows, RCO is presently unique in its capability to deal with radical uncertainty ¨C moreover, by simple operations. It is therefore irreplaceable for Superintelligence.