alt Hacker NewsThese are going to be experienced test pilots who are pretty good at actively managing autopilots and other automated systems. Plus they'll be backed up by telemetry to ground controllers. But ultimately the military is willing to accept some losses in order to advance key R&D programs.
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rwmj • last Thursday at 9:26 PM
Later they'll replace them with minimum wage safety pilots.
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At 1.000 targets / hour as specified, Pentagon's "software abstraction layer" (Maven Smart System) allotted μ=60ms to consider each (mass-) killing that was added to the 'kill-chain'.
Regarding e.g. the 'double tap' strike on Minab's girls school, it's impossible for there to have been any 'management' considering it:
1. has been on Google Maps for over 15 years
2. ranked top on Google Search
3. was all-pink, even on satellite imagery
N.v.m. how the certainty / fuzziness knobs are already being deployed more to generate media buzz for short-term political gains than tactical or strategic results.
(https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/mar/26/ai-got-the-blam...)