AI-operated fighter jet will fly Air Force secretary in a test of military’s future drone warplanes

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FILE - The Pentagon in Washington, March 27, 2008. The Air Force is betting a large part of its future air warfare on a fleet of more than 1,000 autonomously operated combat aircraft, and later this spring its top civilian leader is planning to climb into one of those AI-operated warplanes and let it take him airborne. Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall told senators Tuesday at hearing on the services 2025 budget that he is planning on climbing into the cockpit of one of the F-16s that the service has converted for drone flight to see for himself how it...