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Cake day: August 7th, 2023

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  • Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall told senators on Tuesday at a hearing on the service’s 2025 budget that he will enter the cockpit of one of the F-16s that the service has converted for drone flight to see for himself how the AI-controlled plane performs in the air.

    “There will be a pilot with me who will just be watching, as I will be, as the autonomous technology works,” Kendall told the Senate Appropriations Committee defense panel members. “Hopefully neither he or I will be needed to fly the airplane.”

    Doesn’t this defeat the purpose of the drone? I thought the big advantage for AI/drone fighter jets was that it isn’t limited by the humans inside (in regards to G forces and life supporting systems, not in regards to targets)