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

Technology 28 September 2021

By David Hambling

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. …