Harvard physicist Avi Loeb says humanity is on the brink of a 'major revolution' as advances in artificial intelligence and the search for alien life accelerate, telling a reporter in Athens this week that the coming decades could make our future 'completely different' from our past if evidence of extraterrestrial intelligence is finally found.
Loeb, who teaches at Harvard University and has become one of the most prominent academic voices arguing that the alien question deserves serious attention, was responding to a series of written questions about the state of the world and the universe. His answers, published on Medium, range from fresh results from his Galileo Project observatories in Nevada to his long-running fascination with interstellar visitors such as Oumuamua and a 2014 meteor known as IM1. His more speculative claims have not been independently verified, and he repeatedly stresses that hard data, not belief, must ultimately decide whether aliens are even real.
