Bye, Bye, Biology: Artificial Intelligence Means More Advanced Aliens

Little green men in flying saucers may be the least of our worries. There is a growing belief amongst scientists that aliens may not be biological creatures at all, but rather artificial, robot-like intelligence. Because the universe is much older than Earth, singularity may already exist in alien life forms, allowing them to upload their consciousness into an artificial intelligence within a synthetic body. "Most people have an iconic idea of aliens as these biological creatures but that doesn't make any sense from a timescale argument," Seth Shostak, the director of Center for Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, said. For Shostak, the argument for more advanced extraterrestrial life is "straightforward." Considering that humans have inhabited Earth for less than .003