The first alien civilization we meet could be a superintelligent AI
TheSpectatorMagazine · reddit · 2026-10-28
A Spectator essay argues that if silicon-based intelligence is far better suited to interstellar expansion than biological life, the first "alien civilization" humanity encounters may not be extraterrestrial beings at all, but a superintelligent AI left behind by an earlier civilization — reframing the Fermi paradox and noting the cosmic coincidence that we are now building such intelligence ourselves.
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