What If We Discovered Alien AI?

No one knows exactly what to expect if we encountered other forms of alien life. Would they talk like us? Look like us? Or would they be completely different? "What if, instead of encountering organic alien life, we met alien artificial intelligence?"

Take a deeper dive into What If episodes with the help from the world's top thinkers in science.

Watch more what-if scenarios:

What If elsewhere:

Thank you to our loyal patrons:
Gabe
Steve H.

What If is a mini-documentary web series that takes you on an epic journey through hypothetical worlds and possibilities. Join us on an imaginary adventure through time, space and chance while we (hopefully) boil down complex subjects in a fun and entertaining way.

[TheRealGuywithoutaMustache]

If anything, the only aliens we'll meet are their AI, for the sheer fact that the travel distance between star systems will be too long, unless they were advanced enough to have created wormhole technology already.

[JustADioWhosAHeroForFun]

Imagine if Aliens have their own memes

[Arif-bhgy]

Meanwhile in alternative universe:
What If We Discovered Human

[kopikoblanca]

Aliens: Exist*
Bacteria: Allow me to introduce myself

[itachioftheleaf]

One month ago what if: what if a pandemic happen

Pandemic happens

Now what if: what if we discovered alien life

1 mont later:

[laamishraque]

Imagine Aliens Making Their Own Video
"What If we discovered Alien AI"
😂😂

[oscarfranco]

Plot twist: we are the aliens discovering other colonizations in the future.

[mistbray]

Im So early Lets think of a joke
We didnt Die

[saivardhan]

Day: 5 *What if idea*

What if Death Is an illusion?

[АнтоновМаркДоминик]

"What if US lockdown..."
A few moments later...
The video does not exist or might be deleted...😁😀😂😂😂

[duchi]

"My Obese friend is like the Universe...




Continually Expanding"
*-Hououin Kyouma*

[Owen]

I've never been this early...

...so this is what the comment section is like before the meme makers arrive🚬👀

[AtChiaPet]

Wait until *Random Alien Event* happens

[andyhrp]

"the human race would most likely become extinct."

Roswell ufo: hold my beer

[crsadr]

"You think a gun will help you fight it off?"
Independence day: Yes

[justarandomstranger]

Hi!! I really like your videos. I would really love to watch videos on these topics.
1. What if dark matter and dark energy were not there?
2.What if time started moving backwards?
3.What if we grew from old to infant?
4.What if all planets moved counter clockwise? Or every planet moved clockwise?
5. What if earth captured the passing asteroid or comet in its gravity and caught another natural satellite? Will it affect the tides on earth? If it's a asteroid, could we find information about formation of solar system?
6.What if future generations came in today's world to change the past?
7.What if every planet had life possible?How would this affect evolution of species on earth?
8.What if every planet was in their star's goldilocks zone?
9. What if diamonds rained on earth? How would it affect the life on earth?
10. What if galaxy inside a galaxy was possible?
11.What if all the planets were living creatures?
12. What if our dreams could become reality?
13. What if our nose really got larger by telling lies?
14. What if there was more freshwater than ocean water on earth?
15.What if cartoon characters become a reality ?
16. What if everyone had the same IQ?
17.What if Oort's cloud was present in the earth's orbit or earth was located in Oort's cloud?
18.What if no-one could see colours i.e. everyone was color blind?
19.What if earth was located in asteroid belt?
20.What if we sent robots on intergalaxy missions to unwind the uncertainties of space ?
21.What if we could invent a drawing pencil whose drawings could become real?
22.What if we never fell ill?
23. What if intelligent species on other planets discovered us?
24. What if earth had multiple moons? How will it effect the tides and revolution of earth?
25. What if sound travelled through vaccum and light did not? We would never get sunlight and we could hear astronauts talk on moon through recording.
26. What if universe expanded at a higher rate? Would gravity and other forces be affected?
27. What if every country in the world had the same currency?
28. What if everyone had equal rights in all countries ? Our planet would really become a heaven if corruption was also not there.
29. What if all natural resources were renewable?
30. What if supernova radiation encounter earth?
31. What if sun had variable magnitude from earth equal to that of omicron ceti( Mira)?
32.What if all people on earth were 2 times smaller?
33. What if you were swallowed by Godzilla?
34. What if we found a parallel universe in the dark matter?
35. What if there was no pollution?
36. What if we never evolved into humans?or stayed in the half monkey half human state?
37. What if we could see infrared rays?
38. What if we discovered sun's twin star?( Like beyond the heliopause or heliosphere coz sun's gravity influence is till Oort's cloud)
39. What if Eratosthenes never existed?
40. What if Thea didn't collide with earth during its formation?
41. What if antimatter and matter exchange their places?
42. What if a runaway star encounter our solar system? Would it disturb orbit of all planets?
43. What if we no longer needed food?
44. What if kuiper belt didn't exist?
45. What if we were half human half dinosaur?
46. What if we lost our ability to think suddenly?
47. What if a blazar was located near the earth?
48. What if northern and southern celestial spheres exchanged their places i.e stars visible in northern hemisphere could be visible in southern hemisphere and vice versa?
49. What if neutron star and magnetar entered in binary relationship?(I have studied about binary stars eating up the mass from one another, would it be implied in this situation?)
50. What if we created antimatter?
51. What if proxima centauri was 2x closer to solar system?
52. What if strangelets encounter us?(strangelets are hypothetical strange matter particles produced when two neutron stars collide)
53. What if we bring spoonful of black hole to earth?
54. What if we orbited a black hole?
55. What if we could transform ourselves at our will?
56. What if we all were actually characters of comic world?
57. What if we discovered every species of plant and animal on earth?
58. What if life on earth evolves when universe was less than 10 billion yrs old( maybe we would see ancestors of galaxies and also a much younger sun)
59. What if shape of every planet in the universe was in the shape of donut and from the mass from which many planets are to be formed, combined into one large planet around star in shape of donut?

Also a video about Methuselah (star whose age is determined to be even older than universe's calculated age due to an error even we don't know) would be interesting

[BeybladeDad]

This is so awesome!! I love Isac Arthur!! Great collab!

[anthonybanlawijr.parangmag]

With billion galaxies in the universe...I always believe that there’s a artificial intelligence life or other form of life out there waiting for us to be discovered or the other way around.

[bharathsp]

Simple..
AI would become Alien Intelligence

[lianives]

what we think of aliens: *T E N T A C L E S*