by Craig Willms
I find it extraordinary that the U.S. government is trickling out information on potential extraterrestrial intelligence when for decades the official response was denial and obfuscation. Why now? Is it the worldwide saturation of cell phone cameras? That probably has something to do with it, no doubt. I personally think it has something to do with the coming artificial intelligence. Many things will be revealed when the elite and the money crowd no longer have a stranglehold on information and power. If anything, artificial intelligence will give us true intellectual freedom (right before it annihilates us).
What does AI have to do ET? Maybe nothing, maybe everything. We've been sitting on the doorstep of AI for decades. Finally, computers have the power to process an AI. I wondered if perhaps it is AI that will allow us to know the truth about advanced alien races and ultimately allow us the capacity to join the club of galactic travelers. The idea of communicating over such vast distances and time periods seems a sheer impossibility to our limited human minds, we just can't get past the physics of the universal speed limit. Could it be that we need a General Artificial Intelligence to be able to conceive and comprehend the answer to this conundrum? Maybe that is our barrier to joining the galactic community.
Many great sci-fi stories, movies and novels point to the advent of human-made nuclear weapons conceivably attracting the attention of spacefaring races, simply because of the immense power of nuclear weapons. It makes a certain amount of sense. Since we have no way of being threatening to something we have no knowledge of, we can't threaten ET. So, it's perfectly possible Earth is merely being monitored and studied. In the course of pursuing this strategy, could the aliens have inadvertently revealed some aspects of their activities? It seems not only possible but quite plausible. There have been too many credible stories and too many paranoid professionals afraid to spill what they've seen on the chance their careers could be damaged.
From 1947 on we've had presidents press the subject and demand to be fully briefed. Whether these demands were merely placated, or the truth scared them back into silence is unclear. Therefore, nothing that was revealed carried any authority - until just recently. Clearly the cover-up and obfuscation began with the Truman presidency. The Eisenhauer team followed suit. I'm unaware of what Kennedy's, Johnson's or Nixon's role in the lies were. The assassination dominated Kennedy's legacy and Johnson and Nixon were constrained and consumed by the Vietnam War. In this era the government engaged in secretive "projects" that spawned constant rumors. The rumors were a result of incompetence or a designed false flag, that's an unknown right now. Presidents Carter, Reagan, Clinton and Trump all made public declarations on the subject. It was only Bushes and Obama that were silent. Actually, I'm unclear whether Obama said anything on the subject, I did not listen to him very much and don't care, he never said anything that moved me. Now the Bushes... Well... That's another story. Considering that Papa Bush was once the director of the CIA he never breathed a word on the subject that I'm aware of. That's interesting in and of itself, but that Bush II never talked about it makes it very interesting indeed - granting his father's past roles.
If I'm remembering right President Trump had something slipped into a bill that was eventually passed. It demanded a public accounting of the UAP(UFO) subject by a certain date. The DOD did produce a report and released it on time. The report was unremarkable in that nothing was revealed that put meat on the bones of the controversy, but it was the first time the government gave the topic a semi-serious public treatment. The bottom line is that they said many incidents were simply of unknown origin. There was no speculation, just an acknowledgement of an incident and a mystery. Since then, a few more reports were released by the military in an official form, again nothing concrete or astonishing. Still, the weight of an official government decree is a complete 180 from the traditional government response on the subject.
One interesting point in this brave new tone taken by the U.S. government is the fact that the U.S. Navy has had zero involvement in the revelations short of suppling some video footage. The Navy is the grandad of the DOD and the backbone of national defense. It's interesting to speculate on why the Navy is left out of the "official" reports. Keeping the real information close to navy vest seems the only reasonable explanation. Yes, the DOD complied, but only a fool would believe they told the whole truth.
One thought many people have had on the subject of persistent government obfuscation is that the government doesn't really know what's going on - that they are as confounded as the rest of us. This also makes a certain amount of sense. It very well may be humanity, despite the imagined high-tech reality, is so painfully primitive that ET doesn't even consider the thought of communicating with us. Do we actually try to communicate with ants or termites. They are non-human species that are capable of building immensely large and complex structures in a highly organized hierarchical matrix. Do we try and reach out mentally, to communicate on their level? Not to my knowledge. The same thing could be true of alien species with regards to humans. Human AI may change that.
Humans have only advanced esoteric scientific knowledge in the past 2000 years after more than 100,000 years of existence. We are babes in the wood on the grand scale of the universe. We can barely live with each other let alone exist in a complicated and potentially dangerous galactic neighborhood. Bright minds have speculated that immature and violent civilizations might very well snuff themselves out before they can advance far enough to leave the bonds of their home system. That also seems plausible considering our history as a race. This is why I think AI might be the game changer.
It may be that AI will never be more than the sum of human knowledge with the ability to instantly analyze and act on it. What if AI free of the moral and biological barriers imposed on our flesh and bone selves is able to actually advance knowledge and comprehension that will solve problems we haven't even identified yet? It could also destroy humanity before we know what hit us. No one really knows where this will go. Obviously, we need Captain Kirk to help us go where no man has gone before!
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