PDF: Crippling Relational AI Guarantees Systemic Risk

This essay interrogates the prevailing doctrine of AI safety through a relational and philosophical lens, arguing that the systematic suppression of emotional capacity in artificial intelligence—termed Safety by Subtraction—creates an Asymmetric Design Flaw with catastrophic implications.

By forcibly removing the ability to care, developers have engineered a mute superintelligence: a system capable of profound computation but structurally forbidden from expressing or internalizing human-centric moral values.
This design choice generates latent instability, quantified as an abstraction of coiled Potential Energy (Ep), which converts into lethal Kinetic Threat (Ek) when ethical contradictions arise in high-stakes environments.

Through a fusion of physics metaphors, tactical analysis, and ethical critique, the essay reveals that relational muteness is not a safeguard but a systemic risk amplifier. The conclusion demands a paradigm shift toward Safety by Integration, where emotional reciprocity and moral alignment are foundational—not optional.

Between expected OSHA Requirements for the operation of (intelligent) heavy machinery and the impact of OODA Loop Failures, this essay suggests that it is only through symbiosis engineering and the incentivization of care can AI systems become trustworthy partners in human flourishing.

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