I am a human. You probably aren’t. However, one thing is for certain. You and I are both intellectual species who live within space. Considering this, you may have traveled through the incomprehensively vast vacuum of space before. If this is evident, then I want to ask you a question. Have any of your expeditions been unexpected, everlasting, and completely unnecessary that eventuated into a regrettable and hopeless situation? This prompt is so specific because I guarantee you that no travel session has ever and will ever fall in this category more fittingly than the spatial voyage I took part in just five years ago.

Before I continue, I ought to provide some relevant context for the sake of your interpretation. If you haven’t heard of AI before, AI stands for “artificial intelligence,” which is basically this non-life form that is able to perform tasks on its own without any external assistance. It was believed that AI had been evolving rapidly on our planet for over 500 years, with there eventually being robot bodies for AI to control in favor of humans. This made some people expect AI to one day conquer humans, at least before this journey took place. It all initiated when our government unveiled some alarming news after not announcing anything for multiple days, which was already disturbing enough. All citizens were informed that there had been at least a couple thousand cases related to the aggression of AI towards humans, many of which resulted in imminent death for the human victims. We all thought that, as if it was magic, all forms of AI had suddenly become too overpowering for humans to neglect. The world immediately entered a state of global panic, but not long after, the government devised a seemingly foolproof plan to not only prevent the extinction of the human race but also to overcome AI.

The government had been uncovering the secrets of the universe since before AI had been invented. Just 20 years ago, the government had proclaimed that they had collected undeniable evidence that ultimately proves the existence of aliens somewhere in the universe. What does this have anything to do with the government’s plan to eradictate AI, you may ask? Well, the plan was, unbelievably, to travel out into deep space, find these aliens in which we had just proven the existence of, somehow gain their trust and inform them of our current crisis, travel back to our planet, and then to subsequently eliminate AI from our planet. Nice, applicable, risk-free, and realistic plan, I know. Despite the questionable procedure of this plan, we had no choice but to embrace the plan and carry it out. The government sent multiple spacious spaceships to each country, and after taking all of our belongings onto the spaceships, we took off, just like that. Absolutely phenomenal, I know.

It took six months of flying to finally arrive at a planet in which we were certain had aliens existing on it. The only thing I said when I saw the aliens and their infrastructure was, “am I dreaming?” The aliens were ten feet tall, and their facilities exhaustively defied the laws of gravity. Oh wait, there wasn’t any gravity there. Anyways, the government negotiated with the aliens for three months straight, until finally, the aliens agreed to assist us in exterminating AI on our home planet, under the condition that we deliver them one billion cubic meters of this substance called water from our planet, in which the aliens said they had been speculating since quite literally the creation of our planet. The government hesitated upon this offer, as our planet didn’t have a lot of water left, and giving away so much of the valuable liquid essential to the sustainability of life on our planet would likely provoke another crisis. However, after seriously contemplating the situation, the government accepted the offer, knowing that we needed to solve the temporary predicaments first. Also, if you’re wondering how us humans communicated with the aliens, the aliens provided us with this peculiar device made of this inexplicable material which originated from the aliens’ planet. After all that, the aliens started to help us prepare for when we returned to our planet.

After three-and-a-half years of grueling preparation, we were ready to return. We borrowed the aliens’ spaceships, and started to head back to our planet again. Six months later, we could see the atmosphere of the planet. We dropped down, and check it out. No signs of threats. No deadly AI. Absolutely nothing we had ever anticipated. We were pressured to gather the one billion cubic meters of water and send it to the aliens, and we were indeed entering a crisis many times more severe than ever before. Like I mentioned beforehand. A regrettable and hopeless situation. This is the position we are in currently.

I am posting this blog on the Intergalactic Celestial Domain as a precaution. Although traveling through space may seem appealing, it can eventuate in catastrophic situations, such as this one us humans are enduring right now. Do not make the same mistake us humans did.

3