Sensitive to our biochemical responses, they will speak to us in controlled customized voices. They will also annihilate our notions of human supremacy and illustrate Freeman Dyson’s famous quote that “God is what mind becomes when it has passed beyond the scale of our comprehension.”
While many fear such a moment, thinkers like Bobby Azarian, a science journalist and cognitive neuroscientist, and the late James Lovelock, a scientist and futurist famous for Gaia theory, argue that any sufficiently advanced intelligence will likely be benevolent because it will depend on a network of collaborating systems to ensure the progress of its/their own life, which will likely lead to a commitment to helping our species succeed where we have failed, such as ending war, global inequality, governing without corruption, cooling the planet and more.
