{"id":209959,"date":"2025-03-28T13:13:02","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T18:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/ai-is-actually-a-form-of-alien-intelligence-harvard-professor-claims-and-it-will-surpass-humans"},"modified":"2025-03-28T13:13:02","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T18:13:02","slug":"ai-is-actually-a-form-of-alien-intelligence-harvard-professor-claims-and-it-will-surpass-humans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/ai-is-actually-a-form-of-alien-intelligence-harvard-professor-claims-and-it-will-surpass-humans","title":{"rendered":"AI Is Actually a Form of \u2018Alien Intelligence,\u2019 Harvard Professor Claims\u2014And It Will Surpass Humans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ai-is-actually-a-form-of-alien-intelligence-harvard-professor-claims-and-it-will-surpass-humans.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This phenomenon did not surprise Harvard University professor and virtuoso theoretical physicist Avi Loeb, Ph.D., who is convinced AI will soon surpass anything the human brain\u2019s flesh-and-blood machinery is capable of.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re just in the infancy of this era,\u201d Loeb says. \u201cIt will be essential for us as a species to maintain superiority, but it will illustrate to us that we are not the pinnacle of creation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a blog post, Loeb ponders how advanced the artificial intelligence of hypothetical alien civilizations could have possibly grown\u2014especially civilizations that might have already been around for billions of years before anything vaguely humanoid appeared in the cosmos. What would the AI\u2019s capabilities look like? What would be its limits? Are there even any limits left?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This phenomenon did not surprise Harvard University professor and virtuoso theoretical physicist Avi Loeb, Ph.D., who is convinced AI will soon surpass anything the human brain\u2019s flesh-and-blood machinery is capable of. \u201cWe\u2019re just in the infancy of this era,\u201d Loeb says. \u201cIt will be essential for us as a species to maintain superiority, but it [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209959","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\/209959","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\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}