{"id":117219,"date":"2020-12-16T19:22:16","date_gmt":"2020-12-17T03:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/the-air-force-just-let-an-ai-take-over-systems-of-a-military-jet"},"modified":"2020-12-16T19:22:16","modified_gmt":"2020-12-17T03:22:16","slug":"the-air-force-just-let-an-ai-take-over-systems-of-a-military-jet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/the-air-force-just-let-an-ai-take-over-systems-of-a-military-jet","title":{"rendered":"The Air Force Just Let an AI Take Over Systems of a Military Jet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-air-force-just-let-an-ai-take-over-systems-of-a-military-jet.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The flight marks the first known time an AI has to been used to control a US military aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the first time this has ever happened,\u201d assistant Air Force Secretary Will Roper told the newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>The AI took care of some highly specific tasks and was never in control of actually flying the plane \u2014 or, notably, <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/us-military-denies-autonomous-killer-robots\">any weapon systems<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The flight marks the first known time an AI has to been used to control a US military aircraft. \u201cThis is the first time this has ever happened,\u201d assistant Air Force Secretary Will Roper told the newspaper. The AI took care of some highly specific tasks and was never in control of actually flying the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":542,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117219","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\/542"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}