re: NO and we don't even need AI
But what happens when space robots are farther from us than Luna
and signals end up taking minutes to hours to reach both sides?
They will need some kind of autonomy, certainly more than they have
even now.
And not just to avoid falling over cliffs or getting eaten by the natives,
but also to identify interesting sites as it is roaming and not have to wait
around for the humans back on Earth to find and figure things out first.