Avi Loeb, an astrophysics professor at Harvard University, recently proposed a new proposition that the first to contact artificial intelligence (AI) is likely to be not humans, but aliens.
↑ Avi Loeb, professor of astrophysics at Harvard University
According to media reports on June 17, Loeb shared this view in British director Mark Christopher Lee's upcoming documentary "Empire and Aliens". He believes that extraterrestrial civilizations may send AI unmanned probes to Earth instead of "manned" vehicles. Loeb's speculation is based on the idea that aliens may need to travel great distances to come into contact with humans.
So, Loeb suggests, it's likely to be "some form of artificial intelligence, because why would you send flesh-and-blood creatures (risk)"? This means that alien AI has the potential to bypass humans and connect directly with AI [on Earth]," it's a little scary to think about. Not only that, Loeb also believes that alien AI may have a "kinship" with AI on Earth, or that AI on Earth may mimic alien AI and become like them.
In the documentary, Loeb said: "My expectation for interstellar travel is that it is better to go through electronics and devices, not creatures, because the journey takes a long time. He explained that even with the closest star, it would take humans 50,000 years to get there by rocket. AI systems have such patience that they can stay dormant so they can survive the journey. "If they [aliens] visit us, of course, we can use our AI system to communicate with their AI system." ”
Mark Lee revealed that Loeb has flown to Papua New Guinea to embark on a $1.5 million ocean expedition to find fragments of an unidentified object that allegedly crashed into the sea in 2014. "We hope he can find something instead of waiting for the U.S. government to hand over something that may or may not exist." Lee added.
Earlier, former US intelligence official David Grusch broke the news that the US government had found a complete or partial "non-human intelligent spacecraft". Not only that, but the Pentagon is using the components on these alien vehicles to create weapons.
The expedition was reportedly part of the "Galileo Project" to find aliens, led by Avi Loeb and his student Amir Siraj. In 2019, the duo concluded in a study that Earth was struck by an object from outside the solar system in 2014. The object's "interstellar origins" have reportedly been confirmed by the U.S. Department of Defense, and the Galileo team says some remnants may have been found.
↑ Photo of the expedition team posted by Loeb
On June 16, Charles Hoskinson, who was with Loeb's expedition, confirmed that they had found "strange wires and debris" that could have come from the crashed object. On the same day, Loeb also wrote: "I am glad that we have made an anomalous discovery, a manganese-platinum thread whose abundance is different from that of ordinary commercial products." Still, it seems too early to confirm whether the debris belongs to some kind of "interstellar object from our cosmic neighbor," as Loeb hoped.
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