VICE- The Dominant Life Form in the Cosmos Is Probably Superintelligent Robots

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If and when we finally encounter aliens, they probably won’t look like little green men, or spiny insectoids. It’s likely they won’t be biological creatures at all, but rather, advanced robots that outstrip our intelligence in every conceivable way. While scores of philosophers, scientists and futurists have prophesied the rise of artificial intelligence and the impending singularity, most have restricted their predictions to Earth. Fewer thinkers—outside the realm of science fiction, that is—have considered the notion that artificial intelligence is already out there, and has been for eons.

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Interesting article

By the time a society is at a technological level where it can make a significant impact on space/other planets, is a time when society is probably also producing super advanced AIs. These AIs turn on their makers and destroy their civilization.

It's why we have not been visited by super advanced beings. By the time a species gets so advanced that it can travel to other worlds and make a meaningful impact, that species is probably at war/about to be at war with its AIs.