Summary: The Air Force has big ambitions for incorporating artificial intelligence into warfighting. But there’s one big problem: As of now, the service doesn’t have the processes or infrastructure to test and evaluate AI with nearly the same rigor it’s long used and demanded for its less intelligent weapons systems. That assessment is one of the key findings of a more than year-long study by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NAS), whose authors emphasized the challenges in assessing whether an AI-enabled system will work as it’s intended are not unique to the Air Force, but rather, are common across federal agencies. One of the biggest challenges the Air Force faces is that its test and evaluation infrastructure is designed to put physical weapons systems through their paces at defined points in time, before they’ve been fielded. In that process, once a bomber or fighter has been deemed suitable and effective for its missions, it’s turned over to the operational community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
