Google and NASA have designed a high precision AI that will ensure the health of the inhabitants of Mars

Astronauts from the International Space Station benefit from total medical support between communications with Houston, drug deliveries and the possible emergency return in 6 months. In short, everything you need.

Thought for medical aid on Mars and the Moon

But this will not be the case during future distant exploration missions of NASA and its business partners like SpaceX. NASA therefore decides to invest in AI to help medical care “Independent of the earth”.

The digital medical assistant for crew is the first experiment. It is a multimodal tool that works via speech, text and images in the Green AI environment of Google Cloud.

AI helps astronauts diagnose and treat symptoms when no doctor is available or land communications are cut. This is not the first time that AI has been praised for its qualities in terms of medical. Openai emphasized this quality during the presentation of Chatgpt-5.

The NASA project is based on a Google Public Sector subscription agreement at a fixed price to cover cloud services, development infrastructure and model training. NASA keeps ownership of the source code and participates in the optimization of models. Google Vertex AI gives access to internal and third -party models.

High precision AI in its diagnoses

The first tests relate to three medical scenarios: ankle injury, flank pain and ear pain. Three doctors including an astronaut then evaluated AI performance according to several criteria; namely initial assessment, anamnesis, clinical reasoning and treatment.

The results are promising in terms of diagnosis: evaluation of the pain of the flank and its treatment plan reach 74% probability of accuracy. For ear pain and ankle injury, it is 80 % and 88 % respectively. High -flying scores when no human health professional is available.

But NASA does not stop there since the American space agency wishes to enrich its AI. For example, by integrating more medical data sources and drawing the model to give it a “situational conscience” according to medical needs and conditions such as microgravity.

David Cruley, customer engineer at Google Public Sector, remains elusive about possible use on earth. If the model is proven in orbit, there is no reason why AI is not used here below.

David Cruley explains that the lessons learned from this tool could also apply to other areas of health, for example in isolated areas or in emergency on earth.

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