The reason you're seeing this story is not because the Pentagon felt like you would enjoy some candor on a whiz-bang AI thing. No, they're way out in front of t

The reason you're seeing this story is not because the Pentagon felt like you would enjoy some candor on a whiz-bang AI thing. No, they're way out in front of this issue. This is part of a prolonged PR campaign to prepare the public for reducing or eliminating human-in-the-loop limitations. A wet dream for systems guys since they were children reading sci-fi. The Pentagon has been using robots to kill robots and other humans since before 9/11. This story has a long arc. We meat bags are the major limitation for machines of war and that limitation will be engineered out.