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Narrator: Unprecedented technology transforming the way we live.

Did we develop it all on our own or did we get help?

Narrator: Artificial intelligence --

Could it become

The most intelligent species on the planet?

Shostak: We still decide who the bad guys are.

Wait till ai begins to decide who the bad guys are.

Let's hope it's not us.

Narrator: Did a possible ufo crash in roswell, new mexico,

Change the course of human history?

Kloetzke: Did we reverse-engineer extraterrestrial technology?

And I believe the answer is yes.

Narrator: And might this advanced technology

Have been gifted to humans like a trojan horse?

Bara: Whether it was given to us

Or whether we obtained it in crashes,

The technology could be a means for our destruction.

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Narrator: Throughout the 20th century, mankind has witnessed

Inexplicable rapid technology advances

In nearly all areas of human endeavors.

Compared to 200,000 years of human history,

During which tech progress came very slowly,

Suddenly, in the last 100 years,

Mankind went from steam engines to nuclear power.

And how did we go from the first jet passenger plane in 1954

To landing a man on the moon just 15 years later?

If you look about 100 years ago,

We were still in horse buggies.

And now, all of a sudden,

We've got artificially intelligent satellites

Orbiting the planet.

Narrator: Could such dramatic leaps

Really be the result of human effort alone?

We certainly had a technological jump

That was unprecedented in human history,

And we're looking for a reason why.

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Where did all of the technology come from?

Did we develop it all on our own or did we get help?

Narrator: Ufo investigators believe

The story of our recent

Incredible technological progress

Begins on July 8, 1947,

On a desert ranch in roswell, new mexico.

[ geiger counter clicking ]

The 509th bomb group there in roswell

Sent major jesse marcel...

[ camera shutter clicks ] ...Who was head of intelligence,

And they gathered up a great deal of this material.

And there was no question in marcel's mind

That these were of extraterrestrial origin.

That's what he told his wife and that's what he told his son.

Narrator: According to military records,

The roswell debris is immediately transported

To wright-patterson air force base, near dayton, ohio.

Wright-patterson air force base is always associated with ufos,

And that is because whatever crashed at roswell

Made its way to wright-patterson.

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Bara: Suddenly, then, after the roswell incident,

There was a major breakthrough in transistor technology.

We moved away from vacuum tubes,

And, really, the transistor age started us

Into what is now the modern-computer age

That completely changed the direction

Of u.S. Technological development.

A lot of the stuff came from outside.

It came from another world.

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Narrator: Until the roswell crash,

The world had been relying for almost 50 years

On primitive vacuum-tube technology.

Then, not long after roswell,

There were major breakthroughs in transistor technology

Unlike anything the world had ever seen before.

And transistors were the key building blocks

In the electronic revolution that followed.

But is it possible that transistors

Were only the beginning of a tech revolution

Brought about by contact with ufos?

In January 1958, 10 years after roswell,

President eisenhower goes before congress,

Calling for increased funding

For the sciences and space research.

We must be forward-looking in our research and development

To anticipate and achieve

The unimagined weapons of the future.

Narrator: One significant result of the speech is the creation

Of the defense advanced research projects agency,

Better known as darpa.

Darpa is an agency charged with developed new technologies,

Usually ones that will have military applications

And really pushing the boundaries

And expanding the frontiers of science.

Narrator: In the same year as eisenhower's speech,

Darpa manages rocket development programs

That prove to be long-lived and far-reaching,

Leading to manned space flights and lunar landings.

Darpa has got to be

One of the most mysterious single units of government r&d,

Research and development.

The things that they have done

The public today can't live without.

Narrator: In the 1960s,

Never-before-imagined darpa innovations include the arpanet,

The network that became the basis of the internet,

And supercomputers that perform calculations

Billions of times faster than a human brain.

So, basically, we go from simple adding machines

To advanced technology.

Why did we make these changes so quickly,

And where did this technology come from?

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A lot of researchers believe

That the pace has been so fast

That it seems almost unnatural.

It's as if it came from somewhere else.

And, of course, those people say, "well, it did."

And there are many who believe that this is technology

Acquired from extraterrestrial intelligence,

Whether it is the crash of a ufo at roswell

Or whether it's some sort of active alien liaison program.

Narrator: Until the 1970s,

The u.S. Air force relied on traditional warplanes

Like the b-52 bomber and the f-15 fighter jet for defense,

Planes that were in keeping with

Decades of gradual technological advances.

But mysteriously, in the '70s,

Darpa begins helping the air force

Design and build aircraft

With never-before-imagined capabilities,

Aircraft that appear to come

More from the pages of science-fiction,

Like the stealth fighter and stealth bomber,

Both designed to avoid detection

By radar, infrared, and radio frequency.

Bara: It took us 30 years from roswell

To develop fiber-optic technology

To the point that it was actually usable

In modern aircraft.

That's where the idea came from of sending information

Through light over fiber-optic cables.

Without that technology, we would not have

Some of the advanced aircraft that we have today.

Narrator: But is there any evidence

That this technology was actually derived from ufos?

In fact, of the many former scientists and engineers

Who worked in highly classified government programs,

Three spoke out about the ufo connection.

Bob lazar, who claimed to have worked on

Propulsion systems for the military, revealed in 1989

That he had worked with extraterrestrial technology

At a site near area 51.

Bob lazar claimed

That he had seen extraterrestrial technology,

Some of it crashed and some of it intact.

And they were working on trying to figure out

How the extraterrestrial technology worked.

And, in fact, that's what bob lazar claimed that he did.

Narrator: There is also ben rich, former senior director

At lockheed martin's legendary skunk works,

A program tasked with developing

Super-advanced aircraft designs.

Dolan: In 1993, ben rich gave a lecture

At the ucla school of engineering,

And then he ended it with this statement --

"we now have the technology to take e.T. Home."

So, I'm certain that they made important breakthroughs

That they still have not revealed to us.

Narrator: In statements made just before his death,

Former chief of the pentagon's foreign technology desk

Philip corso

Spoke of turning over ufo tech to the private sector.

When we gave information out,

We gave it out and insisted they take the patents.

But also, we put a little bit of a requirement on there.

Requirement of feed it back to us

For the competitive edge of the army.

Bara: This idea of technology transfer

Between extraterrestrial civilizations

And the american military is certainly supported

By the testimony of very, very specific

And highly placed individuals

Within the american military and private business.

I think technology acquisition

Gets to the heart of ufo secrecy.

And if any of this is right,

Extraterrestrials would be real,

And that is an absolutely game-changing,

Paradigm-shifting place to be in.

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Narrator: But was breakthrough ufo technology

A gift that simply fell from the cosmos?

Was it intentionally sent here for the benefit of mankind,

Or is it possible there could be another,

More sinister reason to deliver alien technology to earth?

Coming up...

Pope: If zero-point energy can be harnessed,

This opens the door to a weapon of unimaginable power.

Dolan: Individuals within our defense community

Confirmed the existence

Of extraterrestrial technology and bodies.

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Narrator: Since 1947, when a so-called flying saucer

Crashed in roswell, new mexico,

Mankind has witnessed

Unprecedented technology advances

In nearly all areas of society.

Is this a coincidence?

Or might this be proof that our world is besieged

From technology derived from extraterrestrial contact?

Since the reported crash of a ufo at roswell,

The defense advanced research projects agency, or darpa,

Has produced technological innovation

That seems to have come from the pages of science-fiction.

When we look at the world today,

Things like the internet, like gps,

Like satellites, like stealth technology,

Those are all things that come from darpa.

[ indistinct radio chatter ]

And darpa is all about turning these new technologies

Into deployable battlefield assets.

Narrator: But the secret projects

That darpa is rumored to be currently pursuing

Seem almost beyond our comprehension and this world.

Case in point, the top-secret tr-3b,

An experimental aircraft rumored to exist

But unconfirmed by our military.

The tr-3b is really nothing like anything that we've seen

In aviation and aerospace history.

It's a flying triangle, a black-world project

That employs a combination of technologies,

Including antigravity.

Then, they have conventional thrusters at each of the tips

That really allow for rapid acceleration

And maneuverability.

Narrator: According to experts,

The tr-3b is also nearly invisible to radar

And air defense systems.

The primary reason why they're hiding it

Is because any government that controls the high ground

In a battlefield will win that war.

So, if you control the high ground,

It's a done deal. You've got it.

Narrator: In alien attacks

Imagined by science-fiction writers,

As in h.G. Wells' "the war of the worlds,"

The weapon of choice for extraterrestrials

Is often an energy ray.

Darpa is developing just such directed-energy weapons.

These use highly focused energy,

Including lasers, microwaves, and particle beams.

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In terms of the next generation of battlefield weapons,

Directed-energy weapons is very much what we are looking at.

Arguably, that technology is here today,

But it is only going to increase in potency

As the technology is refined and further developed.

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Narrator: Could alien technology be darpa's source

For the newest weapons it has developed for the military?

Evidence may be found in darpa's pursuit

Of what some call the holy grail of all future technology --

Zero-point energy,

A force potentially several times greater

Than nuclear energy.

This is the idea that, essentially,

You would be able to derive almost literally from nothing

Unimaginable and arguably unlimited energy.

And clearly, if zero-point energy is real

And can be harnessed, this opens the door

To a weapon of unimaginable power.

Narrator: If extraterrestrials have been observing

The human history of warfare for millennia,

Might they have a sinister purpose in putting that kind

Of world-destroying power in our hands?

When you look at some of the advanced technologies

That are coming into play, like directed-energy weapons,

Like the tr-3b anti-gravity craft...

...Some people think that we gained these advances

From either a recovered ufo or perhaps it was gifted to us

By an extraterrestrial civilization.

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Narrator: Ufo investigators believe further clues

To the success of darpa's many astonishing innovations

May be found in the leaked e-mails of john podesta,

Former chief of staff of president bill clinton

And presidential campaign manager for hillary clinton.

We now know that john podesta has been involved

In e-mail exchanges and communication

With a number of people

Connected with the ufo field of research.

[ camera shutter clicks ] and one of these

Is former apollo 14 moonwalking astronaut edgar mitchell.

Narrator: One e-mail from edgar mitchell to john podesta

Released by wikileaks on January 18, 2015,

Seen here for the first time on national television,

Refers to extraterrestrial intelligence when he writes,

"remember, our nonviolent eti from the contiguous universe

Are helping us bring zero-point energy to earth.

They will not tolerate any forms of military violence

On earth or in space."

I'm not really sure what edgar mitchell

Was really trying to accomplish here,

But I know for a fact that he spoke to

A number of very high-level individuals

Within our defense community who confirmed to him

The existence of programs

To study extraterrestrial technology and bodies.

And there's zero doubt

That john podesta has had conversations

With bill and hillary clinton

About ufos and about extraterrestrials.

Narrator: Is this e-mail proof

That darpa's incredible breakthroughs

Could have been derived from contact with alien technology?

And is our government hiding the truth behind the origin

Of some of our military's most astonishing achievements?

Researchers claim there is

One more extraterrestrial technology developed by darpa

That's even more powerful than all the rest.

But will it benefit humankind or lead to our annihilation?

Coming up...

Artificial intelligence is going to grow

From the workforce to military and autonomous soldiers.

Pope: And these things could be used in mass killings

And in targeted assassinations.

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Narrator: Ufo researchers believe that darpa

And the us military may have developed

Highly advanced weapons derived from contact with ufos.

But is there evidence to suggest such alien tech

May have been sent here to do us harm?

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Narrator: October 2015.

Nasa transmits a software update to the mars rover curiosity.

The upgrade is a program of artificial intelligence

Called aegis.

Although in constant contact with mission control on earth,

The ai allows the rover to autonomously choose

Which martian rocks and soil

It finds interesting for analysis.

In essence, the artificial intelligence

Transforms a six-wheeled nuclear-powered robot

Into a field geologist able to think for itself.

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Artificial intelligence is essentially the concept

That you could get a computer program

And then that program would evolve,

It would go beyond its programming,

And it would be able to perceive its environment,

Take decisions.

And some people say that eventually,

It would become self-aware.

Narrator: Artificial intelligence

Is perhaps the most dramatic technological advancement

We have ever known.

But could this also be an example of reverse-engineered

Or gifted extraterrestrial technology?

Of particular interest to ufo researchers

Is the use of ai in unmanned aerial vehicles, or uavs,

Commonly called drones.

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On October 26, 2016,

High above a california desert,

A pair of air force hornets release a swarm of drones.

Pilot: ...Through zone 3 and 1. Distance complete.

Narrator: Captured by satellite video,

The drones are seen as a moving series of way points,

Meeting objectives set by human programmers.

Sharing intelligence for decision-making,

The drones adapt like swarms in nature.

Dolan: It certainly depended on ai to make it work.

The ability, in other words, of these objects

To make certain kinds of autonomous decisions on the fly.

They've got to be able to do that to be effective.

The analogy of a swarm of killer bees comes to mind.

And, clearly, what we have are these drones

Able to perceive their environment

But then interact with each other to adjust their course

And to move as if they were a single entity.

[ indistinct radio chatter ]

Narrator: In recent years,

Our military has begun employing drone swarms

Programmed with artificial intelligence

In the skies of middle eastern battlefields.

Dolan: In syria, we're seeing drones probing into

And invading into syrian territory.

It's all testing this technology.

Drone swarms are gonna overtake this whole thing.

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This is the future of warfare.

Narrator: But this future is not without ominous concerns.

If ai is derived from alien technology,

As ufo investigators suspect, can we trust it?

What if it was sent here as a trojan horse

To be used against ourselves?

There are huge issues

That need to be addressed with this technology.

One of them is targeting,

And especially the use of lethal force.

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Clearly, in military applications,

It presents a real challenge because it can work so quickly

That, you know, you've taken humans out of the loop.

And when you do that, then human considerations of morality

Are also out of the loop.

A pilot can discern

About what might be going on in a battlefield.

If you have an autonomous drone,

There could be, like, collateral damage.

Uav: I'm picking up a threat detection

Northwest of my position.

Woman: Target verified.

A human pilot could discern

If there's something there, a hospital,

And so they would pass that target.

But when you have kind of a smart weapon

Attached to a computer program, it doesn't know that.

[ whistling ]

[ explosion ]

So, I think it's important

To have a human mind within the loop.

Pope: What if some foreign nations

Or non-state actors hack into the u.S. Technology?

Are we going to see

Swarms of killer drones turned against us?

This is the future.

These things could be used in mass killings,

But they could also be used in targeted assassinations.

And they are very, very difficult to defend against.

Shostak: Problem is that we still decide who the bad guys are.

Wait till ai begins to decide who the bad guys are.

Let's hope it's not us.

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Narrator: What happens when we lose control

Over the ai operating our military weapons?

And what if artificial intelligence

Really is a trojan horse?

If it continues to develop with such incredible speed,

Will mankind survive?

Coming up...

We are looking at a weird amalgam

Of biological genetic engineering combined with ai.

Luke: Artificial intelligence robots could control the planet,

And eventually they might not need us.

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Narrator: Although mankind has seen

Unparalleled technology advances in the past 100 years,

Now, in a seemingly sci-fi future outlined by ray kurzweil,

A top executive at google and world-renowned futurist,

Artificial intelligence will attain

The level of human intelligence in just 10 more years.

Kurzweil further theorizes that human intelligence

Will eventually be multiplied a billion-fold

By merging with the artificial intelligence we've created.

At what point do we say

That we've got a conscious machine

That is now so far advanced of human beings

That maybe we're not the dominant species anymore.

Do we combine with these machines

And become super-advanced, highly-intelligent cyborgs,

Biological cyborgs, or will they find us obsolete?

Narrator: If ai is derived from alien technology,

Could this slow takeover of the human race

Be a way to eliminate earthlings without the need for war,

As some speculate?

And are we continuing to accelerate this possibility

With current research?

As of July 2017, with $65 million in new funding,

Darpa is developing neural implants

That allow the human brain to communicate directly

With computer interfaces.

Your brain, it works on electrical signals.

Alright, that sounds like it would be a pretty easy task

To tap into those signals

And decide what it is that you're thinking about.

You know, for example, that you want to look up

Something on the internet.

Okay, so you just read those signals,

"oh, he wants to look this up on the internet,"

And suddenly, up comes your browser

And it shows you what you're looking for.

I talked to the people in the silicon valley about this,

And they say it's 10 years away.

This kind of brain-machine interface

Working at a pretty high level.

Narrator: Might a future in which humans

Are replaced by ai technology be here sooner than we think?

One of the greatest minds of our age, stephen hawking,

Predicted this kind of grim future by writing,

"the development of full artificial intelligence

Could spell the end of the human race.

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It could be that this artificial intelligence,

These robots have the ability to replicate themselves.

They can control the planet,

And eventually, they might not need us.

Narrator: The point at which technological growth

May result in profound changes to human civilization

Is known as...

The singularity.

When you have a program

That can foresee its own upgrading needs

And its own ability to reprogram itself,

Well, that's when you're really in danger

Of losing control over the whole process.

And the artificial intelligence

Becomes the dominant intelligence.

Ai, people call that the singularity.

And the question is, is this going to be a really bad thing?

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Narrator: In fact, some scholars fear

That artificial intelligence may one day decide

Not to support the continued existence of humanity.

What happens when it does, perhaps,

Regard biological life as a threat?

It would want to preserve itself

And it would want to deal with that threat.

So, ai will want to survive, improve, and reproduce.

What does that mean for humanity?

It might not be good news.

The usual thought is,

"look, if the machines start getting out of control,

We'd just turn 'em off."

Unfortunately, the machines will be aware

Of that possibility.

You cannot pull the plug.

That's the first thing they're gonna do,

To make sure you can't stop them.

I mean, that's a nice idea, but I think it's naive.

Narrator: Alarm bells are already ringing

In many academic circles where artificial intelligence

Is considered a serious threat to our way of life.

Might they already know that ai is derived from alien contact?

A university of connecticut article,

Never before seen on national television,

Authorized by suzan schneider,

Suggests that an alien race could be post-biological,

Which means it may have merged with artificial intelligence,

To become part machine.

I've certainly believed for a long time

That what we see of in this ufo phenomenon

Is almost certainly the product of a very advanced,

Hyper-advanced artificial intelligence.

So the real question is,

"are the beings that people talk about,

Are they ai bots or are they biological creations,

From an artificial intelligence?"

We're in a place now where we are looking at

A kind of weird amalgam

Of biological genetic engineering combined with ai.

Narrator: Schneider also theorizes

That the older a civilization is,

The more likely it will begin

Enhancing itself with technology.

When you look at the advances

That we've made in computer technology

In just a few decades, one can only speculate

What other civilizations might have achieved.

And in a universe nearly 14 billion years old,

We might not be dealing with civilizations,

A few hundred or even thousand years ahead of us,

But millions of years ahead of us,

Perhaps a billion years ahead.

Narrator: Lastly, schneider suggests advanced alien beings

Might not be carbon based, like humans, but mostly silicon

Because it's a superior medium for super intelligence

And interstellar travel.

Interstellar travel will be difficult,

If not impossible for biological life.

If interstellar travel takes as long as scientists say

That it will, machines might be the only way to do that.

Narrator: For ufo researchers, evidence as such an interstellar traveler

May have already been discovered.

But could there be a connection between this visitor

And ai technology here on earth?

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Coming up...

Dolan: Ai is, in many fundamental ways, an alien language

And an alien form of thinking.

Luke: If this is an extraterrestrial probe,

Perhaps it's powered by artificial intelligence.

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Narrator: Artificial intelligence

Could be the most revolutionary technology

Mankind has ever seen.

But like some of the incredible advances

In aerospace systems, might there be evidence

That ai really has its origins

In a distant, unknown civilization?

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Researchers believe clues can be found

By the looking at ai's power of imagination.

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Animator julius horsthuis produced

A fantasy science-fiction short film

Using artificial intelligence to generate,

On its own, incredible landscapes.

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What's really strange, it just creates

This alien type of a landscape.

Why this? Why an alien landscape?

Why not something that we know of here?

Why something that seems so foreign and so alien to us?

Narrator: Left to its own imagination,

Why would artificial intelligence

Create shapes and images that look distinctly otherworldly?

What I think is really interesting

Is when the computers and the artificial intelligence

Is programmed to be creative on their own.

And some of the results that they're getting

Is nothing we've seen here before.

They're very alien.

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Ai is, in many fundamental ways, an alien language

And an alien form of thinking.

Narrator: If advances in human technology were derived

From contact with ufos, as investigators believe,

Might the same be said of artificial intelligence,

And if so, could we be witnessing the emergence

Of a dormant extraterrestrial consciousness

Concealed within our ai?

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Maybe we should be looking for programs that are self-aware,

That appears to have a consciousness.

We should ask ourselves whether this ai

Has gone beyond its programming?

Or could it be from somewhere else?

Artificial intelligence is likening

To consciousness in a human being.

Take a machine that's just a cold block of metal,

And you give it enough neurological processing power,

Where it can make its own decisions,

It can navigate for itself, it can make choices,

You can then obtain, it appears,

Some type of a sentient consciousness

And have the ability to think for yourself,

And that's what artificial intelligence is doing.

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Narrator: If artificial intelligence really is an alien technology,

Sent to earth as a trojan horse,

Is it possible that our progress

With this technology is being monitored?

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Ufo researchers say the answer

May have arrived on November 20, 2017.

In hawaii, at the haleakala high altitude observatory,

Nasa astronomers using the pan-starrs survey telescope

During a nightly scan for near-earth objects

Such as comets and asteroids

Spot a mysterious dark object moving across the sky.

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Our solar system actually had a visitor

From deep space recently.

Now, we can see this thing moving

In this bit of light across the sky.

It's something about the size of 1/4 mile across

And very thin sort of like a cigar.

But because of its orbit being so odd,

We know it isn't a member of the sun's family.

It isn't like all the other comets and asteroids we see.

This is not from our solar system.

Narrator: Called 'oumuamua -- hawaiian for first messenger --

And traveling and nearly 86,000 miles per hour,

This cosmic object has left scientists utterly perplexed.

It was so unusual that even professional astronomers

Are asking, "what is this thing?"

Narrator: Observations revealed

The object has highly unusual characteristics.

This object was cigar-shaped and it also seemed

To have changed course and speed

And may have been using our sun as a gravitational assist

To head out to deep space.

Narrator: For many, the big question remains.

"what exactly is it?"

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Shostak: Arthur c. Clarke wrote a science-fiction story

"rendezvous with rama" many years ago in which he said,

"you know, maybe aliens have hollowed out an asteroid

Or a comet and, you know, turned it into a rocket ship

And are using it to go from one star to another."

So a lot of people thought,

"well, maybe that's what 'oumuamua really is."

Narrator: While some scientists disagree

With this rama theory, others like avi loeb,

Chair of harvard's astronomy department,

Speculate that "rendezvous with rama"

May be closer to the truth.

Loeb: Alternatively, a more exotic scenario

Is that 'oumuamua may be a fully operational probe

Sent intentionally to earth's vicinity

By an alien civilization.

Narrator: What if this interstellar probe was sent here to gather data

About their ai trojan-horse experiment on earth?

If this is an extraterrestrial probe,

Doing covert intelligence gathering,

It might not want to be detected.

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If this is the case, then it is perfectly designed.

It's encased in rock.

Perhaps it has some sort of inner machine

That is collecting data.

And perhaps it's powered by artificial intelligence.

Narrator: Is the arrival of 'oumuamua evidence

That a highly advanced extraterrestrial civilization

With interstellar capability does exist?

And what happens if its covert surveillance

Finds that earth's artificial intelligence

Has reached a kind of tipping point?

Might we find ourselves at the mercy

Of an overwhelming alien presence?

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Coming up...

Dolan: The development of any new runaway artificial intelligence

Could be of potentially grave significance

To any other alien species that's out there.

There is going to be both a defensive capability

And an offensive capability

Designed to counter an extraterrestrial threat.

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Narrator: For the scientific community,

Questions of what to make of the extraordinary

Interstellar visitor named 'oumuamua remain unanswered.

But is it possible, as some believe, that it was sent here

To monitor earth's technological advances?

They scanned 'oumuamua and found

No active signals coming from it.

What hasn't been revealed is that's the sort of thing

That might actually activate

A dormant extraterrestrial probe.

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And, of course, this raises frightening possibilities.

An extraterrestrial intelligence might not want to be detected.

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There might be hostile reasons for covert surveillance.

When we look at the practices

That we use on the battlefield,

We use covert intelligence gathering.

And that always happens right before an attack.

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Narrator: Warnings about the unintended consequences

Of encountering extraterrestrials

Were voiced in 2010

When famed astrophysicist stephen hawking

Claimed that intelligent aliens may be rapacious marauders

Roaming the cosmos in search of resources to plunder

And planets to colonize.

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But might an advanced interstellar civilization

Also be on the lookout for planets with inhabitants

That may one day pose a threat to them.

And if so, what exactly might they fear most?

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It is very possible that the most significant product

Of our entire existence

May well be future artificial intelligence.

And the development of any new,

Runaway singularity artificial intelligence,

Where ai becomes the dominant intelligence on planet earth,

Could be of potentially great and grave significance

To any other alien species that's out there.

Narrator: Could we be confronted

In the not-too-distant future by a non-biological ai species

Apprehensive about our own artificial intelligence?

Might they feel threatened?

And if so, would it be the ultimate irony

If such conflict was brought about

By scientific breakthroughs here on earth

Derived from ufo technology?

Some researchers believe our military is already developing

Revolutionary space-based weapons systems for our defense.

Evidence of this made headline news on December 18, 2018,

When president trump ordered the creation

Of a space command, a new branch

Of the armed services within the pentagon.

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Now, some people in the ufo community say this is designed

To counter an extraterrestrial threat.

And the feeling in some quarters is that this is a real threat,

Possibly an existential threat,

And we need to be ready for it.

So, president trump's space force is coming,

And it's going to be hunter-killer satellites

Armed with lasers.

And whether they're current weapons or future tech,

There is going to be both a defensive capability

And an offensive capability.

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Narrator: Should the day come

When an interstellar war might be waged

With the use of artificial intelligence,

Will ai save us or help destroy us?

We may never know until it's too late.

The outcome may depend on

Whether ai proves ultimately friendly to humans,

Or perhaps was gifted to the earth years ago,

Like a trojan horse only to be awakened

And turned against us by a dominant alien technology.

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