First successful AI dogfight carried out, US Air Force confirms

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Air Force formally acknowledged a successful test of an AI-piloted aircraft in dogfight environment.

The U.S. Air Force on Wednesday publicly confirmed the first successful dogfight between a fighter jet piloted by artificial intelligence and a human-piloted aircraft.The AI-versus-human dogfight was carried out as part of the Air Combat Evolution program that the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency launched in 2019. The Air Force conducted the AI dogfights at Edwards Air Force Base in California, the home base of the 412th Test Wing.

US NAVY TO USE UNMANNED, AI-DRIVEN SHIPS TO COUNTER SMUGGLING, ILLEGAL FISHINGTest pilots were on board the X-62A and had the ability to disengage the AI, but they didn't need to activate the safety switch at any time during the dogfights over the Edwards test range, the Air Force said. Lt. Col. Ryan Hefron, ACE program manager for DARPA, said, "We have to be able to trust these algorithms to use them in a real-world setting.

 

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