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highplainsdem

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11. Aliens foolish enough to merge with AI wouldn't have a high IQ, let alone an average IQ of 800. Aliens
Sun Jun 21, 2026, 10:01 AM
Jun 21

who'd pack 25 million of their "people" into a single vehicle of any type, unless it's the only way they could survive, would be looking to take over another planet and exploit it after overpopulating other planets.

It would be crazy to welcome supposedly benign overlords arriving with a force of 25 million and with what would be an AI hive mind IF they'd been stupid enough to want to merge with AI.

I've occasionally joked here about wishing aliens would come collect Trump and some others in this disastrous regime for alien zoos, to be examples of especially harmful, dysfunctional humans. But alien civilizations looking at us would probably guess there were too many like Trump and his enablers on Earth to be able to help us deal with them.

We aren't going to be saved by benevolent aliens. And we sure as hell aren't going to be saved by artificial intelligence, whether developed by humans or aliens.

We have to save ourselves. And at the moment the AI industry, especially the part focused on generative AI, is peddling the most harmful non-weapon tech we've ever seen, and not caring at all about how much it dumbs users down and harms the environment of the only planet we have.

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