A new preprint paper by Austrian researcher Sergey Ivliev explores how widespread adoption of artificial intelligence could shape humanity’s future in space, and how that relates to the Fermi paradox—the question of why no clear evidence of extraterrestrial civilizations has been observed. The paper focuses on the “space AI” scenario, extrapolating from AI’s growing role in human activities to the longer-term possibility that advanced AI systems could significantly influence exploration, expansion, and technological development beyond Earth. According to summaries of the work, the central idea is that AI-enabled capabilities might change the expected timelines and observable signatures of intelligent life in the galaxy. While the paper is framed as a theoretical extrapolation rather than a new observational result, it ties together AI as a disruptive technological force with long-standing questions in astrobiology and astronomy. The sources describe the study as available as an arXiv preprint and emphasize its connection to whether humanity is truly alone in the galaxy, by suggesting that the behavior of AI-driven civilizations could affect what we would detect.