Patrick Rowan's Skywatch: Minimizing risks of artificial intelligence

What would you say if I told you that an armada of highly advanced alien craft was en-route to Earth from some mysterious distant world, with an estimated arrival time in the next century -- perhaps in as little as 20 years. Would you grow frustrated with the lack of answers to questions like: Could we hold the aliens off, or appeal to them to keep our best interests at heart? The truth is, we know of no such armada, notwithstanding the current interest in UAPs (UFOs). Humanity faces a similar scenario, but the aliens will be created by us right here on Earth. Many prominent thinkers -- including top researchers in the field of A.I., or artificial intelligence -- believe that we are in the early stages of building our own successors, silicon-based life forms that -- from our limited human perspective -- could achieve god-like intelligence and power.