US military pulls the trigger, uses AI to target air strikes
theregister.com
The US Department of Defense has deployed machine learning algorithms to identify targets in over 85 air strikes on targets in Iraq and Syria this year.
The Pentagon has done this sort of thing since at least 2017 when it launched Project Maven, which sought suppliers capable of developing object recognition software for footage captured by drones. Google pulled out of the project when its own employees revolted against using AI for warfare, but other tech firms have been happy to help out.
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All you people commenting ignorantly without reading the article or knowing anything about the subject.
The AI isn't making any decisions. It's being used to help identify targets, which are then acted upon--or not--by humans.
This isn't the big, scary thing you're all making it out to be.