mistakes in A/A combat can have serious repercussions. not only loss of expensive air vehicles, but things like civilian airliners.

'loyal wingman' gives the kill / no kill decision to an Air Force officer. And having the decision maker geographically close eliminates jamming, delays, and the requirements to have a satellite infrastructure (like is required for Predator UAV's).

i hope we never assign a piece of code, AI or not, to be the decision maker.

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jacquesm an hour ago | parent [-]

> i hope we never assign a piece of code, AI or not, to be the decision maker.

This is already a past station, just not at Airbus.

	▲	alephnerd 3 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		> just not at Airbus Airbus is already working on a Project Maven style project with the French armed forces [0][1]. Thales also publicly launched and demonstrated Skydefender a couple days ago [2] [0] - https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/airbus-wi... [1] - https://www.janes.com/osint-insights/defence-news/defence/ai... [2] - https://www.janes.com/osint-insights/defence-news/air/thales...
	▲	esseph 13 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Yes, we are ~4-5 years into AI kill-chains now, though maybe only 1-3 with full autonomy.