And don't forget that there's a "when". Planets ready to be seeded with life are rare at a given point in the universe's timeline. So the AI also needs to make

And don't forget that there's a "when". Planets ready to be seeded with life are rare at a given point in the universe's timeline. So the AI also needs to make course timing decisions in the magnitudes of 1B years... It's so much easier to build and train AI then migrate our "humanity" into machines and just go from there to the Tannhäuser Gate and beyond. When I was a kid, my dad, a very spiritual guy, after tucking me in, revealed to me: "Son, humans can already travel faster than light". My young and inquisitive scientific self said "What?? How?!?!" And he goes: "Just close your eyes and imagine yourself on Mars. It's instantaneous."