
Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb has published a provocative essay posing a question that sounds ripped from science fiction: What if the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is actually an artificial intelligence from another civilisation?
The former chair of Harvard's astronomy department laid out 18 separate anomalies he claims set the cosmic visitor apart from any known natural comet. His latest Medium post, titled 'What if 3I/ATLAS Is AI/ATLAS?', arrived just as a former Bank of England analyst urged central banks to prepare for potential financial chaos following official confirmation of extraterrestrial intelligence, according to his essay.