Avi Loeb

It's about humanity getting better.

And it will not get better with AI, as we discussed.

It could get better with alien intelligence because we will realize that there is something else out there that is more accomplished than we are.

So it will serve as a role model.

You know, in 1882, Friedrich Nietzsche

said, God is dead.

And since then, we had a century of modern science and technology where we feel hubris.

We are at the top of the food chain.

We go to restaurants, we eat other animals that are less intelligent than we are.

But just think about it, if it turns out that we are not at the top of the food chain in the Milky Way galaxy, there is someone more intelligent than us

If that someone comes to visit Earth, will we be served in their soup?

Yeah, I had this dilemma in Boston.

No, it's probably a situation where we are just like ants in the cracks of a pavement.

And there is a biker passing by.

And we are trying to make sounds and, you know, get attention.

We think it's about us.

It's always about us, according to us.

But it's not about us.

You have to keep in mind, he's not a practicing astrophysicist.

He's not writing scientific papers.