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Air Force denies running simulation where AI drone “killed” its operator

Enlarge / An armed unmanned aerial vehicle on runway, but orange. Getty Images reader comments 85 with Over the past 24 hours, several news outlets reported a now-retracted story claiming that the US Air Force had run a simulation in which an AI-controlled drone “went rogue” and “killed the operator because that person was keeping… Read More »

SITREP: With “Skyborg,” Air Force hopes to give pilots a “loyal wingman”

reader comments 59 with 41 posters participating Share this story This summer, the US Air Force awarded contracts to four companies to develop prototypes for the Skyborg Program, the Air Force’s effort to provide relatively inexpensive autonomous uncrewed combat aircraft to serve as robotic wingmen to human-piloted F-22 and F-35 fighters. Skyborg is one of… Read More »