{"id":108208,"date":"2020-06-05T09:43:23","date_gmt":"2020-06-05T16:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/air-force-pilots-are-about-to-do-battle-with-autonomous-drones"},"modified":"2020-06-05T09:43:23","modified_gmt":"2020-06-05T16:43:23","slug":"air-force-pilots-are-about-to-do-battle-with-autonomous-drones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/air-force-pilots-are-about-to-do-battle-with-autonomous-drones","title":{"rendered":"Air Force Pilots Are About to Do Battle With Autonomous Drones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/air-force-pilots-are-about-to-do-battle-with-autonomous-drones.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Changing Course<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The Air Force announced an AI <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/air-force-ai-fly-drones-skyborg\">initiative called \u201cSkyborg\u201d<\/a> last March with the goal of flying fighter jets without anyone <strong>at <\/strong>the controls. Now, Shanahan says that the Air Force may be more interested in swarm drones and other uses for AI than necessarily taking the pilot out of a fighter plane\u2019s cockpit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaybe I shouldn\u2019t be thinking about a 65ft-wingspan, maybe it is a small autonomous swarming capability,\u201d Shanahan told <em>BBC News<\/em>. \u201cThe last thing I would claim is that carriers and fighters and satellites are going away in the next couple of years.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Changing Course The Air Force announced an AI initiative called \u201cSkyborg\u201d last March with the goal of flying fighter jets without anyone at the controls. Now, Shanahan says that the Air Force may be more interested in swarm drones and other uses for AI than necessarily taking the pilot out of a fighter plane\u2019s cockpit. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,9,6,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-military","category-robotics-ai","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}