Cliff's Note

Humanity is being replaced by Artificial Intelligence. Nothing new. However, what emerges as the most prized natural resource is the creative human mind. The alien hybrids must urgently cull, digitize and upload those remaining minds to the block chain for marketing to AI developers before the human extinction event. The hybrids also realize that the creative mind has access to a powerful world that they want to use and profit from.
The creative mind, for the ET Hybrids is little understood. It's something, however, that they are desperate to understand. All their finances and power are no match, however, for Cliff's capacity for out-of-the-box thinking.