AI-powered combat aircraft bring US huge battlefield advantage but raise ethical questions

Fox News correspondent Alex Hogan has more on the provocative military action near Taiwan on "Special Report." The U.S. Air Force's development of a pilotless aircraft run by artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to give American forces the upper hand in any conflict, but it also raises ethical questions about how such powerful technology should be deployed on the battlefield. "This technology is something we'll need for the future of defense," Phil Siegel, an AI expert and the founder of the Center For Advanced Preparedness and Threat Response Simulation, told Fox News Digital. Siegel's comments come as the Air Force continues development of XQ-58A Valkyrie experimental aircraft, an artificial intelligence-run stealth platform that the U.S. hopes can provide a relatively inexpensive weapon that can be used to limit losses to manned planes and pilots in a conflict with a near-peer rival such as China. WHAT IS ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI)? The XQ-58A Valkyrie demonstrates the separation of the ALTIUS-600 small unmanned aircraft system in a test at the U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground test range in Arizona on March 26, 2021.