DARPA launches Assured Autonomy project to ensure AI's credibility

By Rachel Cohen / May 24, 2018 at 4:18 PM
A new Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency program hopes to develop tools to ensure autonomous systems act properly as they evolve with machine learning, and will work with Boeing and Northrop Grumman testbeds to vet those assured autonomy techniques. In a May 21 interview, Assured Autonomy program manager Sandeep Neema told Inside the Air Force multiple companies will develop algorithms that can be tested on Boeing's airborne autonomy assets including a modified Cessna and non-flying software coding testbeds. Northrop Grumman...

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