NASA Leaders to Host Agency Town Hall on Artificial Intelligence

May 21, 2024

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<br /> NASA Leaders to Host Agency Town Hall on Artificial Intelligence<br />

WASHINGTON

,

May 21, 2024

/PRNewswire/ — NASA Administrator

Bill Nelson

and Deputy Administrator

Pam Melroy

are hosting an employee town hall at

1 p.m. EDT Wednesday

, May 22, to discuss how the agency is using and developing Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools to advance missions and research.

The event will steam live on

NASA+

, NASA Television, and the agency’s

website

.

The town hall also will feature the NASA experts pioneering and leading the use of AI across the agency, including:

A.C. Charania, chief technologist
David Salvagnini

, chief artificial intelligence officer
Jeff Seaton

, chief information officer
Kate Calvin

, chief scientist

A wide variety of AI tools are used by NASA to benefit humanity from supporting missions and research projects across the agency, analyzing data to reveal trends and patterns, and developing systems capable of supporting spacecraft and aircraft autonomously.

On

May 13

, Nelson

named

Salvagnini as NASA’s first chief artificial intelligence officer. The agency continues developing recommendations on leveraging emerging AI technology for a variety of missions including sifting through Earth science imagery to identifying areas of interest, to searching for data on planets outside our solar system from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, scheduling communications from the Perseverance Mars rover through the Deep Space Network, and more.

Learn more about artificial intelligence at NASA at:

https://www.nasa.gov/artificial-intelligence

Faith McKie

/

Jennifer Dooren

Headquarters,

Washington

202-358-1600

faith.d.mckie@nasa.gov

/

jennifer.m.dooren@nasa.gov