Last month, the Secretary of the Air Force put on a flight suit and sat in the front seat of an F-16.

His F-16 spent an hour in the air, dogfighting with another Air Force fighter. His jet was piloted by AI. //

I was reminded of the scene from "2001: A Space Odyssey." Machines deciding what is right and wrong. //

jumper
16 minutes ago edited
Between a president that keeps threatening to use F-15's against us and a woke military that will absolutely fire on their own people we may as well take our chances with the computers.

But the reality is quite different. This isn't "AI" in the sense that it's sentient and self-determinant. It's adaptive software that eliminates the problems of the human in the aircraft. There would be hard-wired kill switches and all sorts of other safety measures that sci-fi tries to pretend is easily bypassed. Put it this way: the Chinese and the Russians will be designing their own UCAV's. We would be foolish to fall behind in this.