US Military Uses AI For Air Strikes

US Central Command confirmed the US military has been using computer vision algorithms in order to conduct air strikes in the Middle East.

The machine learning algorithms were used in more than 85 air strikes conducted on Syria and Iraq on February 2.

"We've been using computer vision to identify where there might be threats," US Central Command chief technology officer Schuyler Moore said. "We've certainly had more opportunities to target in the last 60 to 90 days."

Moore said the targeting algorithms, which were developed using the Pentagon's Project Maven initiative that started in 2017, are being used to identify potential targets, but not to verify them or deploy weapons against them.

"There is never an algorithm that’s just running, coming to a conclusion and then pushing onto the next step," Moore said. "Every step that involves AI has a human checking in at the end." (RT.com)

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