"extraterrestrials might send AI drones to our planet Earth,..." by Svetlana Ekimenko via sputniknews Artificial intelligence has been generating quite the buzzwords these days, and it was only a matter of time before AI would be linked to phenomena such as aliens and UFOs. Aliens may opt to make first contact with AI systems instead of humans, as they would likely feel a "kinship" with them, a Harvard professor has been cited as saying. Furthermore, extraterrestrials might send AI drones to our planet Earth, and not the "crewed" UFOs that have become the stuff of sci-fi films and reported "sightings," Abraham "Avi" Loeb, an Israeli-American theoretical physicist who works on astrophysics, was cited as saying in an upcoming documentary. Mark Christopher Lee, the UK director of the documentary, was quoted as saying that Loeb had explained his reasoning. "My expectation from interstellar travel is that it's best done with electronic gadgets and devices rather than with biological