Avi Loeb

The public cares about it.

The public funds science.

Therefore...

Scientists should attend to this question.

Are we alone?

It's the most romantic question in science.

So just to finish my big picture before we get to more.

So then we live on this planet.

Everyone says, okay, we are not at the center of the universe, but we might be the only intelligent species out there.

in orange county california again we need the next copernican revolution the next galilean revolution to realize that there is a smarter kid on the block okay and it's just like the experience of my daughters on the first day to the kindergarten they at home they thought that they're at the center of the of the universe because they had a

You know, their learning was based on a data set that was limited to home.

It's just like LLMs, you know, artificial intelligence systems that learn from their data sets.

And they had limited environment.

And then when they went to the kindergarten, they realized their kids just like them.

Some are smarter.

So we are yet to mature in that sense.

And that's the big picture.

Now, why is it so important for the future of humanity?

Because, you know, the earth...

is not, would not exist forever.