Timothy Murphy, former national security affairs fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, argues that Artificial Intelligence (AI) is crucial to maintaining U.S. advantages in commercial space activity. He argues that AI's capabilities will be crucial in advancing commercial space activities, responding to threats in space, and ensuring AI dominance through American control of the AI supply chain. The Space Force operates a Space Surveillance Network that monitors the space environment and tracks all artificial objects in Earth’s orbit, and AI computing will be increasingly necessary as space-based activity increases. While AI will be essential for detection, tracking, threat analysis, and real-time response to adversary actions, it is also essential to counter the number and capabilities of current threats like China, which has over 1,300 satellites in orbit and maintains multiple systems (in space and on Earth) that can target US and allied space systems.