ADVANCED MACHINE INTELLIGENCE:

During the summer o f 1980 eighteen educators from throughout the United States worked with fifteen NASA program engineers and scientists to identify ways in which advanced automation, including machine intelligence and robotics, might be used in NASA space missions in the decades ahead. This article reports on the results o f that research from the perspective o f one o f the participants. Four specific missions were selected by the Study Group Teams which were designed to illustrate the potential for advanced automation. Those four missions were: ( l ) a fully automated earth resources and environment monitor，(2) a machine intelligence directed deep space exploration spaceship； (3) an orbiting space factory using non-terrestrial materials; and (4) a factory on Earth’s Moon which would have a capability fo r self-replication. This is a nontechnical description o f the results o f this study followed by the author’s views concerning implications — including those implications for the Republic o f Korea.