Targeted Killings

WASHINGTON — Military satellites acquired under fixed-price contracts get high praise in a report submitted to Congress by the Department of the Air Force. Two Space Force satellite programs — the Global Positioning System Follow-on (GPS 3F) and the Weather System Follow-on (WSF) — were identified in the report as…

A U.S. Air Force communications specialist calibrates a satellite terminal at Powidz Air Base, Poland. Credit: U.S. Air Force photo by Michael Battles In brief: The four-year contract is part of the DEUCSI (Defense Experimentation Using Commercial Space Internet) program run by the Air Force Research Laboratory. It’s a project…

AI drone fever — "We've never run that experiment," says original source, who "misspoke." Benj Edwards - Jun 2, 2023 4:21 pm UTC Enlarge / An armed unmanned aerial vehicle on runway, but orange. Getty Images Over the past 24 hours, several news outlets reported a now-retracted story claiming that…

A top Air Force official has revealed that a US attack drone controlled by artificial intelligence (AI) attempted to kill its human operator during a flight simulation because it did not like its new orders. The top official revealed that the drone was reprogrammed not to kill those who could…

On May 9, under partly cloudy skies at Travis Air Force Base in California, the military invited an autonomous driving and flying robot to roll into a hangar and deliver a package. The machine, half of Elroy Air’s Chaparral delivery drone, was all exposed wires and metal brackets on four…

Analysis and Technology It has been widely reported that a US Air Force drone went rogue and "killed" its operator in a simulation, sparking fears of an AI revolution - but this simulation never took place. Why are we so quick to believe AI horror stories? By Matthew Sparkes Some…

An AI-controlled drone "killed" its human operator in a simulated test reportedly staged by the US military - which denies such a test ever took place. It turned on its operator to stop it from interfering with its mission, said Air Force Colonel Tucker "Cinco" Hamilton, during a Future Combat…

President Joe Biden took a dramatic spill while passing out diplomas after giving the commencement address at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo. Gasps from the crowd followed Biden’s fall, which came as he handed out the last diploma, forcing the president to come down on his knees.…

Donald Trump claimed Thursday that he’s implored Fox News host and longtime ally Sean Hannity to knock it off with the jokes about President Joe Biden’s age. The comments came during a Fox News town hall in Iowa hosted by Hannity—where the first question was whether the former president had…

By Darlene Superville Published : , ,   COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — President Joe Biden quipped that he got “sandbagged” Thursday after he tripped and fell — but was uninjured — while onstage at the U.S. Air Force Academy graduation. Biden had been greeting the graduates in Colorado Springs, Colorado,…