The discussion around humans vs robots in space in historically deep conversation with scientific, technical, and philosophical aspects. Do not simply brush it off without understanding the context.
Furthermore, many methods that are currently classified as "AI" act because of very complex and often opaque emergent behavior, and we often have a hard time (or don't know at all) why a CNN for example behaves as it does, or even how exactly it behaves. Do you want something that you neither understand nor can predict to perform a crucial job in your space mission?
i was responding to the assertion that humans are more 'up to task' for space exploration
> Also, how would AI help with the time lag?
giving the robots some autonomy to navigate / build between commands would speed up their mission and making up for the 15 minutes delay