Or humanity will continue to be too divided to handle the crises that will rise in the next 50 years with super heat waves, less water and movements of humans to colder and more stable areas. New alien life in the universe might have a massive impact on humanity like nothing else. Especially if we face an alien with tools to travel the universe, but even small insignificant life would be evidence of more advanced alien existence since it’s all a numbers game.
We have to work together. Religion and countries will eventually be a thing of the past and that is needed to stop an advance of a new Robotics life form controlled by an AI.