New "scientific" hypothesis: alien killer robots destroyed ET civlizations

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This isn't a joke: theoretical physicist Alexander Berezin hypothesizes that the 'Fermi paradox' may be due to to alien killer robots having wiped out every extraterrestrial colony.

Is this why we haven't found ET yet? Alien killer robots may have destroyed every extraterrestrial civilisation in the universe, scientist claims

• New theory attempts to explain why humans have not detected signs of alien life
  
• It states any lifeform that colonises the stars will destroy every species in its way
  
• Scientists warns that humanity needs to take to the stars itself – or inevitably face destruction at the hands of aliens or AI-powered robots
  

Berezin has published a paper, which has yet to be peer-reviewed, which describes his so-called ‘first in, last out’ solution to the Fermi Paradox.

He writes: ‘I am not suggesting that a highly developed civilization would consciously wipe out other lifeforms.

‘Most likely, they simply won’t notice, the same way a construction crew demolishes an anthill to build real estate because they lack incentive to protect it.’

(...) Berezin warns: ‘The incentive to grab all available resources is strong, and it only takes one bad actor to ruin the equilibrium, with no possibility to prevent them from appearing at interstellar scale

‘One rogue AI can potentially populate the entire supercluster with copies of itself, turning every solar system into a supercomputer, and there is no use asking why it would do that.
‘All that matters is that it can.’

Read the full thing here:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/a...laims.html

Amazingly muddled, even for the Mail. The article quoted Berezin as saying any civilisation that tries to colonise other planets - whether biological or AI - will wipe out other species it encounters. So there's a headline about "alien killer robots", immediately followed by a comment about alien killer "lifeforms". Followed by another comment about "aliens" or "robots". 

And how does that explain the Fermi Paradox anyway? Why haven't we encountered the killer aliens/robots?

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This is Berezin's paper:
https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1803/1803.08425.pdf