DARPA Automates Dogfighting To Develop Pilot Trust In AI In Combat

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The Lockheed Martin F-16 will represent aircraft with digital flight controls in DARPA’s AI-automated dogfighting demo.
Credit: U.S. Air Force
A pair of machine-controlled aircraft dogfighting against a pair of human-piloted fighters in the skies over Nevada—that science fiction scenario is one potential culmination of a new DARPA program to automate air combat maneuvering using artificial intelligence. The Pentagon advanced research...

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