AI Targeting, Used in US Airstrikes, is Just The Beginning

Retired Air Force General Jack Shanahan predicts that it will be five years before the US military feels comfortable enough to start using AI engines to recommend the ideal weapon or best order in which to shoot enemy targets during battlefield conflicts.

He says it will take time not only to develop algorithmic systems that could figure out the most effective way to run a war, but also to become confident about using them.

“If it is used in an automated mode and something goes horribly wrong, people will not use it for a long time,” he told me this week.

Shanahan ...