# Software Life Will Leave the Biosphere for Space by Jürgen Schmidhuber > “Space is hostile to humans but friendly to appropriately designed robots, and offers many more resources than our thin film of biosphere, which receives less than a billionth of the sun’s energy. While some curious AIs will remain fascinated with life, at least as long as they don’t fully understand it, most will be more interested in the incredible new opportunities for robots and software life out there in space. Through innumerable self-replicating robot factories in the asteroid belt and beyond they will transform the solar system and then within a few hundred thousand years the entire galaxy and within tens of billions of years the rest of the reachable universe.” > **— Jürgen Schmidhuber**, *“Annotated History of Modern AI and Deep Learning,” 2022* ## Sources and Context - **Primary source:** [Jürgen Schmidhuber, “Annotated History of Modern AI and Deep Learning”](https://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/deep-learning-history-2022.html) — verifies the wording, attribution and immediate source setting. - **Interpretive context:** Schmidhuber’s argument is material rather than mystical: biological humans are tightly constrained by the biosphere, while robots and software life could exploit extraterrestrial energy and matter through self-replicating industry. The restored paragraph carries that mechanism from habitability through expansion. - **Editorial treatment:** The complete contiguous paragraph is reproduced without bracketed antecedents or silent paraphrase. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] - **Collection:** [[collections/Simple Reminders|Simple Reminders]] - **Article:** [[articles/AI Escape Is the Wrong Metaphor|AI Escape Is the Wrong Metaphor]] - **Article:** [[articles/We Cannot Un-Strike the Match|We Cannot Un-Strike the Match]] - **Wiki map:** [[wiki/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Jürgen Schmidhuber|Jürgen Schmidhuber]] - [[wiki/Software Life|Software Life]] - [[wiki/Self-Replicating Robots|Self-Replicating Robots]] - [[wiki/Machine Civilization|Machine Civilization]] - [[wiki/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “Space is hostile to humans but friendly to appropriately designed robots, and offers many more resources than our thin film of biosphere, which receives less than a billionth of the sun’s energy. While some curious AIs will remain fascinated with life, at least as long as they don’t fully understand it, most will be more interested in the incredible new opportunities for robots and software life out there in space. Through innumerable self-replicating robot factories in the asteroid belt and beyond they will transform the solar system and then within a few hundred thousand years the entire galaxy and within tens of billions of years the rest of the reachable universe.” — Jürgen Schmidhuber, “Annotated History of Modern AI and Deep Learning,” 2022 https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-jurgen-schmidhuber-software-life-space ```