Dear Bachtiar Abbas,Recently I went to a seminar at the University of British Columbia, that was attended by 5 astronauts from NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration). It was a discussion about "the need of humans instead of artificial intelligence in space exploration". All 5 astronauts including Mr. Ulf Merbold shown here (an astronaut from West Germany and a physicist by trade), gave a short speech about the topic. Some with well design chart and visual display to dramatize their reasonings. Needless to say that they were all "pro" (as oppose to "con"), that humans need the "hands on" expertise in space exploration. There was a 30 minutes "question and answer" period after the speeches.
The "con" is that, with the rapid advancement in artificial intelligence technology, a robotic can be made to do all the necessary task in space exploration in a very harsh environment. So why risk human. What do you think?
