I have been playing the beta patch for about 2 weeks now, and it seems that the AI are still pretty stupid when it comes to map hazards.
In the klingon mission "the winds of change" both of the Rakellian attack fleets, warped into asteriods.
Jureth in the last mission, ran into his own asteriodbase.
In Federation conquest mode, convoy raid in an asteriod field, both my AI wingmen flew into asteriods, as did 2 freighters.
In open space the AI behave and play like a human (takes almost 4 mins to kill a CA now) which i think is excellent, but cant they be made a bit smarter when it comes to navigating an asteriod field?