v9. A future reality?
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It looks as if previous civilisations had possibly wiped themselves out or were wiped out. The victors haven’t been our way - - yet.
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The previous civilisations don’t look as if they had developed artificial intelligence - AI - otherwise it might have turned up here.
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They may have been wiped out by their own AI and, which, who knows, is making plans involving us.
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The way we are going, it needn’t bother.
More from Brian Cox
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“It may be that the growth of science and engineering inevitably outstrips the development of political expertise, leading to disaster,” says Cox.
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He believes that intelligent extraterrestrial life may have unwittingly rendered themselves extinct.
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Intelligent life destroys itself as soon as it becomes advanced, the physicist believes,
“we could be approaching that position.”
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The tabloids also render it. Daily Star Daily Mirror
And we're next!