I mean let’s say we manage to develop advanced AI before we develop ships that can transport humans across the galaxy safely. If we send AI probes to a world like ours with a species like ours how different would their experience be than ours right now? Elite oligarchy enabled by slow drip of advanced tech to consolidate control and then give up agency to AI? Climate change, possibly terra forming against the interests of the target species? Weakened world government and international order to promote discord and violence? Seems a little like we’d follow the playbook the Americans did with their genocide of the natives, divide and conquer. Is there anything happening right now that wouldn’t fit that narrative if it was flipped around with us as the target species?