Perseverance's drives planned by AI

Planned the rover's route on Earth; the commands were checked and sent to Mars, and the rover drove them.

Operator	NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Developer	NASA JPL, with Anthropic
Host	Perseverance
Where	planned on Earth, driven on Mars
Class	planning
Hardware	on Earth
Model or software	Vision-language models (Anthropic's Claude)
Launched	not applicable
Ran	8 and 10 December 2025

What was said, and by whom

“has completed the first drives on another world that were planned by artificial intelligence”

NASA JPL: the operator. NASA's Perseverance Rover Completes First AI-Planned Drive on Mars, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Published 30 Jan 2026 (page metadata). Read 4 Oct 2026, in full.
“verifying over 500,000 telemetry variables before sending commands to Mars”

NASA JPL: the operator. NASA's Perseverance Rover Completes First AI-Planned Drive on Mars, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Published 30 Jan 2026 (page metadata). Read 4 Oct 2026, in full.
“in collaboration with Anthropic, using the company's Claude AI models”

NASA JPL: the operator. NASA's Perseverance Rover Completes First AI-Planned Drive on Mars, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Published 30 Jan 2026 (page metadata). Read 4 Oct 2026, in full.

First drive on another world planned by AI: out of scope. The model ran on Earth and its plan was sent to Mars. The claim is about planning, and may well be right; it is not a claim that an AI ran in space.

Outside the register and shown beside it, because it marks the boundary: AI used for a space mission, not AI that ran in space. It carries no mark.