{"id":189051,"date":"2024-05-10T03:23:17","date_gmt":"2024-05-10T08:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/creepy-study-suggests-ai-is-the-reason-weve-never-found-aliens"},"modified":"2024-05-10T03:23:17","modified_gmt":"2024-05-10T08:23:17","slug":"creepy-study-suggests-ai-is-the-reason-weve-never-found-aliens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/creepy-study-suggests-ai-is-the-reason-weve-never-found-aliens","title":{"rendered":"Creepy Study Suggests AI Is The Reason We\u2019ve Never Found Aliens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/creepy-study-suggests-ai-is-the-reason-weve-never-found-aliens3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibm.com\/topics\/artificial-intelligence\">Artificial intelligence (AI)<\/a> has progressed at an astounding pace over the last few years. Some scientists are now looking towards the development of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibm.com\/topics\/artificial-superintelligence\">artificial superintelligence (ASI)<\/a> \u2013 a form of AI that would not only surpass human intelligence but would not be bound by the learning speeds of humans.<\/p>\n<p>But what if this milestone isn\u2019t just a remarkable achievement? What if it also represents a formidable bottleneck in the development of all civilizations, one so challenging that it thwarts their long-term survival?<\/p>\n<p>This idea is at the heart of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0094576524001772?via%3Dihub\">research paper<\/a> I recently published in Acta Astronautica. Could AI be the universe\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scienceshot.com\/post\/where-are-all-the-aliens-exploring-the-great-filter-hypothesis\">\u201cgreat filter\u201d<\/a> \u2013 a threshold so hard to overcome that it prevents most life from evolving into space-faring civilizations?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artificial intelligence (AI) has progressed at an astounding pace over the last few years. Some scientists are now looking towards the development of artificial superintelligence (ASI) \u2013 a form of AI that would not only surpass human intelligence but would not be bound by the learning speeds of humans. But what if this milestone isn\u2019t [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}