US Air Force Skyborg Program Plans to Use AI to Redefine Aerial Warfare

The US Air Force plans to use 1,000 AI-controlled drones as armed escorts alongside conventional fighters

The XQ-58A Valkyrie Skyborg demonstrator inaugural flight (2019) | Photo by U.S. Air Force | Public Domain on Wikimedia Commons

These are indeed strange days we’re living in, as science fiction and reality are dangerously entwined. Today, I stumbled upon a news story that instantly transported…