This is an interesting - albeit terrorizing - concept, but I have trouble understanding what it means in practice
[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEby9OkePpg [video][3 min 33 sec]
> One of the U.S. Air Force's stealthy XQ-58A Valkyrie drones recently completed a successful test flight demonstrating the ability to carry out aerial combat tasks autonomously using new artificial intelligence-driven software. The service says the test is part of a tiered approach to maturing autonomy "agents," which involves training algorithms millions of times first in simulations and other testing. This includes the Collaborative Combat Aircraft program, or CCA, a key part of the larger Next Generation Air Dominance modernization initiative.
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/xq-58-valkyrie-solves-...
There are no plans to arm them (yet), instead to make them do recon autonomously and report the results to humans. And the government is currently saying that when they do carry weapons, a human will have to authorize every use.
It is getting silly though. Makes conversations with less than tech savvy people a little difficult lately since it's such a hot topic