Humans have already found alien life – but not in the form of little green men.

The claim comes from the UK's Astronomer Royal, Lord Martin Rees. Writing for the BBC, Lord Rees claims that Artificial Intelligence is a form of alien life, and that it signals the end of humans reaching the peak of Darwinian evolution – and this could see our role as the dominant species no longer be the case.

He said: “It may be only one or two more centuries before humans are overtaken or transcended by inorganic intelligence. If this happens, our species would have been just a brief interlude in Earth's history before the machines take over. Many assume that human beings are the peak of intelligence, but it's possible that our species may represent a stage on the path towards minds that are more artificial.

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“This could explain why the cosmos seems so empty of life like us. If an evolutionary transition to non-organic intelligence is inevitable across the Universe, our telescopes would be most unlikely to catch human-like intelligence in the sliver of time when it was still embodied in that form. It is perhaps more likely that the aliens would be the remote electronic progeny of other organic creatures that existed long ago.”

Artificial Intelligence has seemingly seeped into many aspects of human life in recent years, with it now taking many jobs from humans. Google, Twitter/X and Microsoft have all been producing their own versions of AI-powered language models in recent years, which adds fuel to the fire that AI will take over from humans at some point.

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And AI “aliens” could be the next thing on the list, with Lord Rees claiming that it has many advantages over humans, and could actually be out in space somewhere already. He said: “Non-organic intelligence may have no use for an atmosphere, or the planet on which they originated. Interstellar voyages – or even intergalactic voyages – would hold no terrors for near-immortals.

“They may not have the same base desires as us. We have evolved through Darwinian pressures to be an expansionist species. Selection has favoured intelligence but also aggression.

“But if Darwinian pressures do not apply to these artificial entities, there's no reason why they should be aggressive. They may just want to think deep thoughts.”

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