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Many people who report a close encounter claim they see UFOs with advanced technology studying

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the Earth.

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But is there a biological entity behind the controls?

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Or are some UFOs sentient machines?

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Some scientists believe the survival of mankind on a dying Earth hinges upon the revolutionary

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science of artificial intelligence.

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As we investigate that biological life may just be an evolutionary stepping stone in

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a world dominated by artificial alien intelligence.

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A global effort has begun.

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Secret files hidden from the public for decades detailing every UFO account are now available

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to the public.

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We are about to uncover the truth behind these classified documents.

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Find out what the government doesn't want you to know.

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Unsealed.

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Alien files.

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Exposing the biggest secret on planet Earth.

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Evidence suggests that if aliens exist, they are more technologically advanced than humans.

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But is technology an evolutionary trait?

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Many scientists believe the survival of our species depends on our ability to innovate.

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And there is one technological advance that promises to change our place in the universe

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forever.

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Artificial intelligence is a technology that allows a computer to think.

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We know that machines are programmed.

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They can do program to do whatever task we want them to do, but that's all they know.

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In the field of AI, now you're teaching them how to think for themselves, how to make decisions,

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how to understand what they're doing, and then learn from it.

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It's the great science fiction dream, or perhaps nightmare.

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Could a machine one day become self-aware?

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What would machine intelligence be like?

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Unsealed case file.

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The Verona's Incidents.

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September 23rd, 1989.

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Verona's Soviet Union.

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The story of the Verona's encounter was a few children were out playing and saw a spaceship

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type craft out in the distance.

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300 miles southeast of Moscow, a group of children playing in a park witness a boomerang-shaped

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UFO in the sky.

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As these children then began to watch and see what was going to happen, a nine-foot

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tall, what they described as an alien, exited the craft.

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Gripped with fear, one of the boys starts screaming.

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In the Verona's Incident, the robot that was seen might have come straight out of the pages

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of a sci-fi novel.

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It is almost the archetypal robot.

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This is exactly how science fiction writers envisaged a robot, and perhaps indeed how scientists

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might design one.

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To silence the boy, the alien fires a laser-like weapon.

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This weapon was used against the children, where it actually fired on one of them and

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the child disappeared for a couple of minutes.

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It's a tense moment for all involved.

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The machine seems to show no emotion.

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One reason why AI might be such a threat is that machine intelligence would be unclouded

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by love and compassion.

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This would simply be cold logic, and if human beings were assessed as inferior, emotion

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would play no part.

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We might be deemed a threat and deemed something to be wiped out.

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The missing child reappears apparently unharmed.

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Then the UFO and its occupants quickly fly into the sky.

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Scientists are often reported during UFO encounters involving entities, and there is certainly

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great logic in the idea that extraterrestrial explorers would have robot helpers.

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But if you can do interstellar travel, you can probably design robots, and that will

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enable you to do a lot of the difficult and dangerous tasks.

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But if any or all of the Voronezh aliens were some form of robots, what were they sent

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to do?

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Now, is that robot helper a guardian designed to protect the biological life form?

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Is it simply a tool to recover samples?

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We don't know.

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But certainly if humans go into space, they will doubtless if the technology is there,

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and we can make robots with them to do the legwork and to do the dangerous and difficult

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tasks that we can't do.

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When you look at what the human race is doing with its technology, it really isn't that

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far-fetched that an extraterrestrial civilization, given the fact that their intelligence grows

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to create AI and beyond, that they are essentially going to merge with machines as well.

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But the promise of artificial intelligence, as many scientists concerned.

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Artificial intelligence harnessing that computational power is going to be a very lethal combination,

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so it has to be controlled in some way.

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So I think that that fact, coupled with aliens are out there and they're intelligent, they're

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probably going to go down the same path.

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I think artificial intelligence is absolutely going to collide in the future.

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Robots of some close encounters have reported seeing robots alongside UFOs.

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But if aliens are doing reconnaissance of Earth, it makes sense that robots could accomplish

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the first wave of research and more.

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When you look at human space exploration, we are sending probes everywhere.

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They're unmanned, they're small, and they essentially just watch.

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Now the theory of an alien civilization exploring the cosmos, my guess is they're going to do

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the same thing.

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Unsealed case file, the Kera UFO.

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August 25th, 1972, Kochi Prefecture, Japan.

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The Kera incident from 1972 in Japan ranks, I think, as one of the most truly extraordinary

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UFO encounters of all time.

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It involved what really looks like some sort of mini probe device, a small, apparently

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metallic craft that was seen by a boy hovering over a rice paddy.

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A witness saw a UFO out in the rice fields and he described it as more of a mini ship.

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This was something that literally you can essentially hold on your lap.

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The boy watches the mini UFO flying in and out of the rice fields.

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And he thought, okay, this is something very strange.

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And so he goes and he gets a friend of his to come back to the field and sure enough,

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they both saw this mysterious craft.

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Eventually it had left the area.

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They had no pictures, no nothing to take back with them.

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So they thought, well, let's take a camera out and if this thing shows back up, then

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we can essentially capture a photo of it.

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They try again the next day and to their amazement, it shows up.

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They snapped a very fuzzy and grainy photograph of whatever this object was.

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But where this story takes a very weird turn after the flash went off from the camera, it

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was like something happened to the UFO.

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The UFO is disabled long enough for the boys to approach the craft.

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The boys recovered this small object and took it home.

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And this was truly extraordinary.

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This small device, whatever it was, was small enough for them to pick it up and carry it.

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He then wraps it up and puts it in a satchel and takes it home.

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Intrigued by the device, the boys try to understand how it works.

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They try to get a closer look at the insides of this thing and there seemed to be electronics

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in there.

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There's some description of it to the media thereafter, but of course the object mysteriously

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disappeared in the next couple of days.

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But what could the Kera UFO be?

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If this story is taken at face value, this thing may well have been some sort of alien

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pro sent to explore planet Earth and perhaps sent to take and recover samples from the surface

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of our planet.

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It would suggest one way to explore the galaxy would be to employ a self replicating probe.

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If the Kera UFO was extraterrestrial, one theory is that it may have built itself.

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The idea of a self replicating machine is that a single probe, probably an AI probe,

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makes a copy of itself, an exact copy from resources that it finds as it travels around

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in the cosmos.

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Because that one machine can only cover so much ground.

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It's a physical object.

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It can only travel so fast and the universe is pretty vast.

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Could some UFO sightings actually be AI probes scouring the planet for information?

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One of the most common types of UFOs seen for decades has been the small spherical point

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of light.

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Are we dealing here with AI probes?

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Are we dealing with the idea of self replicating machines designed by an extraterrestrial

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civilization and something which has spread out throughout the entire galaxy?

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UFOlogists believe some unidentified flying objects could be unmanned probes sent from

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another world.

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But with so many astronomical objects entering and leaving our solar system all the time,

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how can we recognize one that might be a UFO?

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Unsealed case file.

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Asteroid 1991 VG.

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November 6th 1991.

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The Sun.

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An American astronomer discovers a unique object orbiting the Sun, following a similar

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path as the Earth.

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Now the characteristics of this were bizarre.

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It seemed to be highly reflective and at first he thought this was perhaps a discarded space

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rocket.

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Certainly it seemed to be artificial, but no space rocket or satellite fit the bill here.

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So, again, if this thing wasn't an asteroid and it wasn't a space rocket constructed

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by humans, what was it?

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Its extremely shiny surface exhibits a rapid variation in brightness, and its orbital path

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does not match any known man-made object, leading many experts to consider it of unknown

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origin.

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But one astronomer thinks he has the answer.

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Duncan Steele claims that this is possibly some type of alien probe that exhibits qualities

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of being artificial rather than natural.

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Duncan Steele is a research astronomer who has taken the more conventional search for

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extrasolar planets to a rather logical and interesting extreme.

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Just as astronomers look for a drop in luminosity when new planets cross in front of a star,

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no gastroids and probes could also be detected using the same technique.

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Well, would the same thing not happen if a spaceship or a space station or a space probe

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did the same thing?

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So his theory is that we can hunt not just for extrasolar planets, but for AI space probes

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and space stations.

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With over a million objects orbiting the Earth, scientists are on a 24-hour watch.

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1991BG is an object that really sticks out as not being an asteroid-like object or a

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rock, essentially an orbit around Earth.

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Could it be an alien space probe of some sort?

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One of the most extraordinary things about this object was its strange irregular orbit,

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and indeed it's an orbit that's going to take it tantalizingly close to planet Earth

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in 2017.

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What will scientists discover when 1991BG passes close to Earth again in 2017?

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This is something that actually exhibits qualities of possibly something else.

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Some experts theorize it's a Bracewell probe, a type of probe that theoretically could be

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sent by an extraterrestrial civilization to monitor and communicate information about

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Earth.

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If there are alien probes in vicinity of planet Earth, the implications are huge.

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We know that NASA and ESA are capable of designing space probes that are now capable of going

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to comets on close approach, and indeed bringing back samples.

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If there are alien probes out there, our technology is becoming good enough to go out and bring

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the entire probe back.

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This would answer for once and for all the question of whether or not we're alone, because

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if we're being visited by probes, they are reachable now.

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I think artificial intelligence is going to be key to understanding these advanced life

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forms.

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Most scientists believe that alien life will be more mechanical than biological in nature.

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We're not going to essentially find them living in big cities on an Earth-like planet

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like years away, that we'll probably find alien life much closer to the resources of

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our universe.

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That essentially these artificial intelligence machines are going to be going out and mining

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the universe for the resources.

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Most machines can be designed to have a much longer life than an astronaut.

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When you send that out into the stars, well, who cares if it has to wait 5,000 years to

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get to its nearest neighbor?

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It doesn't age.

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It doesn't die.

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It doesn't decay.

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So that mechanical being that we are in the process of creating is probably going to be

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our first astronaut into deep space.

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The concept of us finding an alien probe out there isn't too far-fetched because that's

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exactly what the human race is doing.

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So it would be not unlikely for the aliens to be doing the same exact thing.

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Some ufologists believe many UFOs could be autonomous machines.

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I think it's arguable that most UFOs out there could potentially be unmanned where there's

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no biological entity or intelligently controlled person or alien behind the controls.

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That they could essentially be artificial intelligent probes very much like we are sending out there.

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Scientists believe a widespread integration of artificial intelligence is the only way

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mankind will navigate the future.

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It's believed that when we do make contact with an alien civilization, it will be with

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a mechanical machine or an artificial intelligence.

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The universe might be more full of AI than biological life.

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And the reasons for this are really evolutionary.

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Life is much too fragile to sustain long periods of independent existence.

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The thinking is that any biological civilization might want to address those issues and improve

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themselves and modify themselves.

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We have to merge with our digital selves.

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We have to create digital offspring if you were artificial intelligence that essentially

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is us but is also essentially immortal.

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That it will not age or decay or die on a space trip that lasts thousands of years.

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That essentially that digital footprint of us, that digital copy of who we are could

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be sent out into the cosmos and it really makes no difference how far they travel.

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Because once they get there, they'll be alive to say hello.

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Experts believe artificial intelligence is now inevitable.

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When you look at the human race, we are merging with our machines.

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We're merging with our technology.

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Yes, it's starting with mechanical extensions like arms or legs, just limbs to our human

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bodies that makes more sense to live forever than it does for, let's say, 75 or 85 years.

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But there is another more disturbing reason.

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If machine intelligence is more evolved, then we may be shifting increasingly to a post-biological

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universe.

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You are going to have some very intelligent brains out there that are going to create

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this artificial intelligence that's just going to go off the maps in regards to their own

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way of thinking and that digital intelligence.

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AI might itself then design better and better versions of itself, more powerful, immortal.

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And we may therefore be in a situation where the universe is ruled by a single, almost

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omnipotent machine.

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This is Unsealed.

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Alien Files, exposing the biggest secret on planet Earth.