"One rogue AI can potentially populate the entire supercluster with copies of itself, turning every solar system into a supercomputer, and there is no use asking why it would do that," observes theoretical physicist Alexander Berezin from the National Research University of Electronic Technology (MIET) in Russia.
Berezin has proposed an explanation for why we're seemingly alone in the Universe --what he calls his "First in, last out" solution to the Fermi Paradox.
No present observations suggest a technologically advanced extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI) has spread through the galaxy. However, under commonplace assumptions about galactic civilization formation and expansion, this absence of observation is highly unlikely. This improbability constitutes the Fermi Paradox. In this paper, I argue that the Paradox has a trivial solution, requiring no controversial assumptions, which is rarely suggested or discussed. However, that solution would be hard to accept, as it predicts a future for our own civilization that is even worse than extinction.
According to Berezin's pre-print paper, which hasn't as yet been reviewed by other scientists, the paradox has a "trivial solution, requiring no controversial assumptions" but may prove "hard to accept, as it predicts a future for our own civilisation that is even worse than extinction". Berezin suggests the problem with some proposed solutions to the Fermi Paradox is they define alien life too narrowly.
His entire premise is patently ridiculous. There is overwhelming evidence that we are being visited by ETs. To read more, click here.