When humanity eventually meets an alien civilisation, the ETs will almost certainly be artificially-intelligent robots, predicts the Astronomer Royal, Lord Rees of Ludlow.
And it’s likely that sooner or later, we’ll have been replaced by AI robots too.
Lord Rees told the Cheltenham Science Festival that mankind would almost certainly be “superseded” by artificially intelligent super-robots within the next millennium.
Lord Rees says that the search for extraterrestrial intelligence is likely to turn up something very unlike us.
“What will we expect this life to be like? I think if we were to detect anything . . . it would not be a flesh and blood civilisation like ours, it will be something robotic and electronic.”
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