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DARPA has officially released footage showing the US Military's first AI vs. Human aerial combat.

In the recently disclosed flights, the ACE AI algorithms took control of a specially modified F-16 Fighting Falcon test aircraft designated as the X-62A, or VISTA (Variable In-flight Simulator Test Aircraft), at the Air Force Test Pilot School at Edwards Air Force Base (AFB), California. The demonstrations of autonomous combat maneuvers began last year.

AI pilots are developing at a rapid rate and are now beginning to be integrated into fighter systems. They will be cheaper in the long term.

When an AI fighter pilot beat an experienced human pilot 15-0 in the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s AlphaDogfight competition, it didn’t just

entering the cockpit. In August 2020, DARPA’s AlphaDogfight trials—a series of AI experiments inside a simulated fighter jet cockpit—pitted an Air Force F-16 pilot against an AI pilot in a virtual dogfight. In a blow to fighter pilot egos everywhere, man lost to machine...five times in a row. But it wasn’t a real battle. Nobody knows that better than USAF Colonel Dan “Animal” Javorsek, the manager for DARPA’s Air Combat Evaluation (ACE) program. “We envision a future in which AI handles the split-second maneuvering during within-visual-range dogfights, keeping pilots safer a...