Jetse de Vries is a technical specialist for a propulsion company by day, and a science fiction reader, editor, and writer by night. He's also an avid bicyclist, total solar eclipse chaser, single malt aficionado, Mexican food lover, metalhead and intelligent optimist. On March 28, 2021, he posted the world’s first NFT SF novel on Ethereum’s Mintable.

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One of the strongest clichés in science fiction is that intelligent robots or Artificial Intelligences will either destroy or subvert humanity once they are ‘superior’. I disagree, as I would argue that they are — in that case — only ‘superior’ in deviousness, not in intelligence. I believe that truly superior intelligence goes hand in hand with superior ethics. As such, a truly superior machine intelligence—one created by biological predecessors — would not destroy the species that arose before it (and created it), but rather support them. And other species that have not yet reached its intelligence level. Now how far would support go, I wondered. “Machine Intelligences Don’t Care about the Fermi Paradox” tries to explore exactly that. And, of course, it’s not a Star Trek homage at all …