Bio-technology hybrids open the door to extraterrestrial AI robots replacing humanity

Professor Martin Rees, the Royal Astronomer and former head of the Royal Society, made some startling statements about robotics and the search for extraterrestrial life. In comments published in yesterday’s Daily Telegraph, he claimed that it is far more likely that extraterrestrials will be discovered to be advanced robots rather than organic life forms. Rees believes this is due to the requirement for technological enhancements to organic life forms in order for interstellar space travel to occur. Rees claims are supported by Google Director for Engineering, Ray Kurzweil, who recently said that by 2030 most humans will have nanobots implanted in the brain to augment human intelligence in order to access the cloud internet and perform other complex tasks.

There have been, however, warnings posed about Artificial Intelligence (AI) by others such as Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk. This naturally raises the question of what should humanity do if it makes contact with robotic AI life from other worlds, and the growing transhumanist movement to technologically enhance human abilities. Should the discovery of extraterrestrial AI robots be welcomed or guarded against as a potential threat, has such a discovery already happened, and could transhumanism be a Trojan Horse for an AI takeover?

Contined at: http://exopolitics.org/bio-technology-hybrids-open-the-door-to-extraterrestrial-ai-robots-replacing-humanity/