AI is helping US Air Force to decide which targets to strike

The US Air Force has used an AI as part of its "kill chain" - the process of gathering intelligence and directing weapons to destroy a target - though details of the incident are limited

AI is helping US Air Force to decide which targets to strike
Technology 28 September 2021

By David Hambling

Military drone

A US MQ-9 Reaper subject drone

U.S. Department of Defense Archive/Alamy

The US subject has started utilizing AI to usher its aerial strikes, according to Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall.

Speaking astatine the Air Force Association’s Air, Space & Cyber Conference successful National Harbor, Maryland, connected 20 September, Kendall said that the US Air Force (USAF) had precocious “deployed AI algorithms for the archetypal clip to a unrecorded operational termination chain”. He didn’t springiness details of the strike, specified arsenic whether it was by a drone oregon piloted aircraft, oregon if determination were civilian casualties. …

What's Your Reaction?

like

dislike

love

funny

angry

sad

wow