00:03Do aliens exist?
00:05That's a question humans have been trying to answer for likely thousands of years.
00:09The Fermi Paradox outlines that there is an almost certain chance that intelligent life exists, given the infiniteness of space,
00:16yet there is no evidence for their existence.
00:18The Great Filter is one explanation, suggesting that natural disasters like planetary demise, illness, or apocalypses are the most likely
00:25reason for preventing intelligent life from going interstellar.
00:29However, a new paper suggests that artificial intelligence, or more specifically, artificial superintelligence, or ASI, could be part of the
00:37Great Filter.
00:38Astrophysicist Michael Garrett says this means that the period of a technological civilization is actually quite short, only around 200
00:45years.
00:46And aside from the search for alien life elsewhere, he says this could be a dire warning for Earthlings,
00:50saying there is a critical need to quickly establish regulatory frameworks for AI development on Earth and the advancement of
00:57a multi-planetary society to mitigate against such existential threats.
01:01These threats will likely emerge from single nations deciding to use advanced AI for national defense, forcing other countries to
01:07do the same or lose on the battlefield.
01:09And once ASI reaches a point of being more intelligent than us, it will continue to evolve at an unmatched
01:15pace, faster than humans can write code to control it.
01:18And likely, as Garrett writes, leading to unforeseen and unintended consequences that are unlikely to be aligned with biological interests
01:26or ethics.
01:27Thanks.
01:28Thanks.
