Tag: AI
US Air Force Mulls Teaming F-35, F-15EX Jets With Drone Wingmen
Under the so-called Skyborg prototype programme, drones are expected to be connected to manned fighters to assist pilots during missions. When the American fighter...
US Says No Civilians Have Died in Somali Airstrikes, Contrary to Probe Findings
US Africa Command is pushing back against an Amnesty International report claiming US airstrikes in Somalia have caused massive civilian casualties. However, the Trump...
DOD’s Artificial Intelligence Initiatives Outlined Before Senate
Three Defense Department research entities outlined the department’s artificial intelligence initiatives in the face of great power competition March 12 during a hearing...
Airlines, CISF put on alert after Air India receives hijack call
The Mumbai Control Centre of the national carrier Air India Saturday received a phone...
DARPA Researching AI Systems to Let Troops Command Lethal Machines With Thoughts
The Pentagon’s secretive weaponry development office has recruited teams to develop neural interfaces for humans to control war-making machines.The Department for Advanced Research Projects Agency...
US Navy Aims to Track Enemy Subs With Gene-Modified Marine Organisms
Previously, the Persistent Aquatic Living Sensors (PALS) aimed to find existing marine organisms capable of reacting to unknown, man-made objects so that the US...
Microsoft President: We’ll Give Pentagon ‘All the Technology We Create’ (VIDEO)
US23:55 03.12.2018(updated 23:59 03.12.2018) Tech companies have had to grapple with increasing pressure over the past year from employees wary of the dangers of...
‘Autonomous Warrior’: UK Army Conducts its Largest Test of Battlefield Robots
Europe14:46 12.11.2018The exercises are but the latest in a series of noticeable efforts by the British military establishment to increase know-how in the realm...
UK Gov Warns ‘Enhanced’ Human Soldiers Will Fight Future Wars – Reports
Europe15:49 15.10.2018(updated 16:16 15.10.2018) The new report comes at a time of snowballing global anxiety over the ethics of weaponizing artificial intelligence and robots...
An ‘Edge’ in Future Battles: UK Testing Out New AI Warfare Technology
Europe18:40 24.09.2018(updated 18:41 24.09.2018) Despite a withering military establishment beset by chronic government spending cuts and personnel shortages, the UK armed forces are fighting...
China Turns TVs and Mobile Phones in Villages Into Surveillance Terminals
The suspects did not know that their street fight was being watched at home and on phones by their fellow villagers, whose television sets and mobiles were...