# AI is not ready to fly solo in space

> Source: <https://www.sciencenews.org/article/ai-task-completion-ability-space-scifi>
> Published: 2026-07-15 14:00:00+00:00

In the movie WALL-E, some of the last Earthlings travel through the Kuiper Belt on the starship Axiom. For 700 years, a fully automated crew of robots has cared for them after our planet became uninhabitable.

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