Paper Claims AI May Be a Civilization-Destroying "Great Filter"

If aliens are out there, why haven't they contacted us yet? It may be, a new paper argues, that they — or, in the future, we — were wiped out by superhuman artificial intelligence. This potential answer to the Fermi paradox, in which physicist Enrico Fermi and subsequent generations beg the question: "where is everybody?", […]

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