![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/aliens-could-be-ai-super-species-who-look-down-on-us-like-ants-says-expert/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/newspress-collage-20310941-1667480068433.jpg&description=ALIENS visiting Earth could be super-beings powered by AI technology far beyond anything we know, an expert warns. And they could be so advanced they look down on us like ants - so we will have to hope they "extend their tentacles in peace", says Dr Luisa Preston. Extraterrestrials could look like us or be totally different, experts say We could be visited by an advanced race of super-beings powered by AI techCredit: Getty Hopefully the aliens are tolerant and look on us kindly, says Dr Luisa PrestonCredit: Getty It comes as a new BBC documentary imagines how the world would react to a visit by extraterrestrials - from internet memes to panic buying of loo rolls and guns. Dr Preston, a lecturer in planetary science and astrobiology at University College London, says we could have a lot to fear. She told The Sun: 'We do think that if there is alien life out there then it's quite possibly more intelligent than we are. 'If you look at it logically, the universe is 13.8billion years old but life on our planet only began to arrive 3.9billion years ago - intelligence is a relatively new thing for us. 'We do think that if we do encounter life it will be small organisms or it will be far ahead of us. 'There's a theory that civilisation has a lifespan so it could be that these civilizations have evolved to the point where their civilisation ends. 'Where they could have evolved to - who knows? 'Some people say that the next stage in evolution would be artificial intelligence and gone from being biological to being technological. 'It's obvious that technology would outlive biology. Life on earth is restricted to our planet but if anything happened our technology would live on. 'We have the Voyager probes out there and rovers on Mars. Evidence of our civilisation would exist - it would just be technological evidence. 'Who knows what's out there?' And if we ever did meet creatures from another planet, one of the first things we'd want to know is what they look like. Dr Presto){kind=link}
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ALIENS visiting Earth could be super-beings powered by AI technology far beyond anything we know, an expert warns.
And they could be so advanced they look down on us like ants – so we will have to hope they “extend their tentacles in peace”, says Dr Luisa Preston.
It comes as a new BBC documentary imagines how the world would react to a visit by extraterrestrials – from internet memes to panic buying of loo rolls and guns.
Dr Preston, a lecturer in planetary science and astrobiology at University College London, says we could have a lot to fear.