Current Affairs - What Does AI Mean For The RAF

Question 1

What does AI mean for the future?

Answer 1

Could become essential, either as a complete substitute or a subordinate to a human operator.

Question 2

Cognitive speed

Answer 2

AI has potential to process and respond to events far quicker than the human cognitive cycle can.

AI becomes capable of handling more complex tasks at millisecond speeds, which could become a battle winning attribute.

Question 3

Ability to process large volumes of information

Answer 3

The retina can transmit up to ten million bits per second into the visual cortex of the brain, which even advanced AI struggles with in terms of pattern recognition.

The key to leveraging this attribute will be using AI as a complementary fashion to humans.

Question 4

Access

Answer 4

AI will be able to access locations which humans cannot
It may be a that battle winning advantage comes from deployment of aircraft which are simply too small to have a human operator onboard.

Remotely Piloted Air systems (RPAS)

Question 5

More on AI

Answer 5

Use of AI to control war fighting aircraft is a continuous proposal and one which goes right to the core of ethical debate.

Question 6

RPAS

Answer 6

Global hawk is programmed to return to base if it loses communications with its controller.
AI will likely increase in sophistication to be able to handle longer duration jamming or interception.

Question 7

BBC Sounds

Answer 7

Reaper - unmanned surveillance aircraft
Mental Health
Shipping container in Lincolnshire
Operating in the Middle East

Question 8

Air and space power review article
How AI is changing the nature of war

Answer 8

Access
Ability to process large volumes of information 10mil
Cognitive Speed
What does AI mean for the future?
Ethical
RPAS

Question 9

Air and space power review article