The rise of AI has many wide-ranging implications for the future of the human race, but it's perhaps the potential military uses that raise the biggest causes for concern. It seems we're now starting to see what an AI versus human battle might look like, at least in the skies above us, as the US military has tested an AI-controlled F16 in a dogfight with an actual test pilot—although the results as to who "won" remain unclear.
The catchily named X-62A Variable Stability In-flight Simulator Test Aircraft, or "VISTA" for short, is essentially a modified F16 fighter jet controlled by AI that has previously conducted multiple test flights to demonstrate the capabilities of its artificial pilot (via The Telegraph). It seems that testing has gone rather well, as last September the AI was let loose in the skies to test its dogfighting capabilities with real-life human opponents.
