AI-operated fighter jet will fly Air Force secretary on test run

2024-04-09 11:40 AM by Eugen Boglaru

The Air Force is betting a large part of its future air warfare on a fleet more than 1,000 autonomously operated drones, and later this spring its top civilian leader plans to climb into one of those artificial intelligence-operated warplanes and let it take him airborne. Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall told senators on Tuesday …

Ethical Terminators, or how DoD learned to stop worrying and love AI: 2023 Year in Review

2023-12-22 12:52 PM by Eugen Boglaru

Networks / Cyber Pentagon grapples with growth of artificial intelligence. (Graphic by Breaking Defense, original brain graphic via Getty) WASHINGTON — When pundits talk about military use of artificial intelligence, the phrase “human in the loop” is almost certain to come up. But a “human in the loop” isn’t defined in the official Pentagon policy, …