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One popular answer to the Fermi Paradox is that advanced civilizations develop artificial intelligence and simply lose interest in space travel. A researcher now argues that's backwards: AI, robots, and cheap probes make space exploration easier, not pointless. Which means the paradox gets worse, not better. Let's take a look.
Correction: The author is not a physicist, but has a PhD in economics. Sorry for the mixup.
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Paper: doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2606.13914
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One popular answer to the Fermi Paradox is that advanced civilizations develop artificial intelligence and simply lose interest in space travel. A researcher now argues that's backwards: AI, robots, and cheap probes make space exploration easier, not pointless. Which means the paradox gets worse, not better. Let's take a look.
Correction: The author is not a physicist, but has a PhD in economics. Sorry for the mixup.
#science #sciencenews #physics #space #aliens
Paper: doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2606.13914
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