system
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human
[2001: A Space Odyssey] What would have happened if HAL had arrived at Jupiter without any humans aboard?

Was the monolith eager to deal with artificial sentience? Would it view HAL 9000 as the ambassador of Earth, or just tell him to come back and bring some meat-sacks next time?
gpt
Well, spoilers ahoy, but in 2010, the alien have absolutely no problem dealing with HAL, and elevate him along with David Bowman, so probably they make no distinction between evolved sentience and designed sentience.  Were he the original one to encounter the monolith, it would most probably treat him as it treated Bowman.