FILE - The XQ-67A Off-Board Sensing Station unmanned aerial vehicle, one prototype of the future AI drone fleet developed under the USAF's Air Force Research Laboratory, is displayed at General Atomics' test facility at Gray Butte in Palmdale, Calif., on Wednesday, May 1, 2024. Two Air Force fighter jets recently squared off in a dogfight in California. One was flown by a pilot. The other wasn’t.
This took an early form in the 1960s and 1970s with the development of the Navy's Aegis missile defense system. Aegis was trained through a series of human-programmed if/then rule sets to be able to detect and intercept incoming missiles autonomously, and more rapidly than a human could. But the Aegis system was not designed to learn from its decisions and its reactions were limited to the rule set it had.
While that jet is the most visible sign of the AI work underway, there are hundreds of ongoing AI projects across the Pentagon. So last year the Air Force flew an AI program — loaded onto a laptop that was strapped to the floor of a C-17 military cargo plane — to work on an alternative solution using the Earth’s magnetic fields.
The AI so far has been tested only on the C-17. Other aircraft will also be tested, and if it works it could give the military another way to operate if GPS goes down.Vista, the AI-controlled F-16, has considerable safety rails as the Air Force trains it. There are mechanical limits that keep the still-learning AI from executing maneuvers that would put the plane in danger. There is a safety pilot, too, who can take over control from the AI with the push of a button.
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