AI is the current ‘Great Filter’ popular shout.Another potential answer to the Fermi Paradox is the Great Filter, which is basically that any civilisation has a number of barriers to overcome in it’s development (planet being in the Goldilocks zone, multi cellular life developing, avoiding asteroid strikes, not blowing themselves up), and these barriers vastly reduce the likelihood of advanced civilisations developing.
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All intelligent at some point pursue super intelligent AI and it ultimately destroys them.