Shield AI eyes 2025 for AI fighter jet pilots

By Audrey Decker / February 23, 2023 at 2:09 PM
After demonstrating its artificial intelligence algorithms during an inflight test with an F-16, Shield AI aims to have a version of its self-driving software ready for a fighter jet by 2025. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency announced last week that it tested Shield AI’s and other DARPA performers’ AI algorithms to control a full-scale F-16 during a demonstration in December . Shield AI cofounder Brandon Tseng told Inside Defense that the company is working “much faster” than any...

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