Would aliens actually travel across the galaxy to meet humans face-to-face? According to Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb, probably not. Instead, any advanced extraterrestrial civilisation capable of reaching Earth would likely send autonomous artificial intelligence systems — not biological beings. And if such a probe ever arrived, Loeb warns, the consequences for humanity could be far more disruptive than popular science fiction suggests. In a …
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