We will live in a universe created by artificial intelligences, which were, in turn, created by other artificial intelligences.
AI presents us with an opportunity to wipe clean centuries of crawling around, catch up and overtake our oppressors.
A space rock, Asteroid 2024YR4, hurtling through the vacuum at unbelievable speeds, was recently calculated to have a 3.1 per cent chance of hitting earth, the highest probability ever. Further Nasa data and analysis, however, have lowered the risk to 0.0017 per cent probability, meaning it will most likely miss us. It is also not big enough to blow the earth to smithereens, at between 40-90 metres, but still capable of hammering our planet with the explosive force of 7.8 megatonnes of TNT, enough to cause lots of deaths and destruction, according to The Guardian.
Human beings live on this planet as if life was permanent and safe, absorbed with our competition and rivalry and investing the bulk of our resources on ways of destroying life, rather than preserving it. Whenever a new technology is discovered, it is at once applied to new and frightening ways of killing each other. We totally ignore the fact that we have never even found the remotest evidence of life outside our planet. If there is no life outside this planet, then earth is an insanely precious piece of real estate.
