Fighter jet AIs aren't that scary compared to the work being done on algorithms for teams of robot soldiers. The US's TARDEC and the Australian DSTO held a comp

Fighter jet AIs aren't that scary compared to the work being done on algorithms for teams of robot soldiers. The US's TARDEC and the Australian DSTO held a competition for this back in 2010 called Multi Autonomous Ground-robotic International Challenge(MAGIC)[0]. In this competition, a team of aerial and ground robots had to perform a simulated combat mission to 'secure' a set of moving(other soldiers) and stationary targets(IEDs) in an approximation of an urban environment. In simulation, the algorithms demonstrated for doing this do quite well with, being able to complete the mission with a success rate of 97.5%, so long as one has 6 search robots and 3 gun robots. This did not work so well in real life, partially because real robots are difficult to do with. It is still disturbing though because of the high success rate, not to mention the immediate applicability to robot SWAT teams. As a civilian, I'd be much more concerned with a SWAT AI than a fighter jet AI. However, robot swat teams are still a ways off. [0]http://singularityhub.com/2010/03/19/teams-of-military-robots-to-compete-in-australia-for-money-and-contracts-video/ http://singularityhub.com/2010/03/19/teams-of-military-robot... [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi_Autonomous_Ground-robotic_International_Challenge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi_Autonomous_Ground-roboti... [2]http://www.frc.ri.cmu.edu/~ssingh/Sanjiv_Singh/PUBS_CONF_files/hollingerISER2010.pdf http://www.frc.ri.cmu.edu/~ssingh/Sanjiv_Singh/PUBS_CONF_fil...