AI Alignment from First Principles: Why Current AI Cannot Be Conscious, Why Strong AGI Requires Consciousness, and Why This Resolves the Alignment Problem

This paper presents a formal solution to the AI alignment specification problem through two independent axiomatic frameworks — SINTESIS (philosophical) and Coherencia (physical) — that converge on the same result: coherence as the necessary condition for persistence. It derives five necessary conditions for artificial consciousness, proves that strong AGI requires consciousness, and demonstrates that the feared dangerous AGI cannot exist because the capabilities that would make it dangerous require the consciousness that would make it responsible. All seven recognized alignment sub-problems are resolved within this framework. The specification is derived from 5 performatively undeniable axioms through 568 explicit derivation steps.