Humanity today is literally drowning in assumptions and guesses regarding the first meeting with intelligent extraterrestrial intelligence. But the first meeting can be very, very terrible. If you imagine aliens as little gray or green men, with large heads and limbs, who have a strong mania in exploring people through an obscene place, then you are deeply mistaken and we have to upset you.
Susan Schneider is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Cognitive Sciences at the University of Connecticut and also teaches at Yale University and serves on many research groups. In her recent research, Alien Minds, it is said that the first modern contact with "aliens" will occur rather with an advanced robotic race, which is estimated to be billions of years old.
The woman is more than sure that many alien civilizations are not biological life forms. These forms of life are postbiological, a perfect form of development of a living organism, a kind of advanced alien artificial intelligence. Or even a superintelligence. Such civilizations are hundreds of thousands of times ahead of us humans in development. By the standards of advanced aliens, we are rather babies, whose civilization is somewhere deep in the bud.
The development of the postbiological phase of a living organism is quite reasonable and logical. After all, based on this knowledge, alien civilizations have an incredible level of technology development, they created life based on silicon, becoming almost immortal and learned to survive where there is no place for carbon forms of life.
Indeed, such a silicon-based robotic hybrid has a number of significant advantages:
- Easily transfers space flights;
- Has colossal computing power;
- There are no physical limitations (skull, bones for example);
- The superintelligence phase is reached quickly.
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But by the standards of aliens, primitive humanity is already on the right path and is slowly merging with machines. If even a person was able to create such a perfect artificial intelligence, which is constantly progressing, then it is logical to assume that such an initial level of alien life forms passed many billions of years ago.
In her early works, Susan Schneider has already said that modern AI has long surpassed man in many ways: it beats him in chess, replaces him at various stages of production and life, and is ahead in endurance and productivity. Subsequently, the AI will develop into a superintelligence, which will definitely be better than the biological one. In addition, such a superintelligence can even possess traits that are unique to humans today: social skills, scientific thinking, common sense. It is this in the future that creates a threatening danger.
We can safely assume that the rapidly developing artificial intelligence will eventually turn out to be smarter than humans and will outplay all control measures, which will ultimately result in total enslavement for all of humanity. But rather, such a future will turn out to be not so prosaic - humanity will simply be destroyed, because it will be useless, the developed AI will turn out to be too self-sufficient.
Based on the foregoing, it should be noted that humanity is only a primitive form of life organization, because our brain is limited by chemical and historical factors and is only able to adapt to environmental impacts.