Daily Star's biggest headlines straight to your inbox!Nanobots capable of “stripping the Earth in two hours” may already exist and are in the hands of governments, believes a conspiracy theorist.The concept of apocalypse-causing nanobots – robots that operate near the scale of a tiny nanometer – was first put forward by Eric Drexler in his 1986 book Engines of Creation.And the Theories of the Third Kind podcast has since delved into the theory, looking at the increasing role of Artificial Intelligence and this “microscopic” technology.One of the podcast contributors, Hans, suggested the main threat to civilisation comes in the form of nanobots.“These little microscopic pieces of machinery start taking orders from something else,” he said..
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