One for the future perhaps?

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Originally Posted by ikalugin

I think that strike UAVs are over rated, as far as you won't have a proper AI, you won't be able to hand over targeting and weapons use to it.

I think it would be a mistake to give a strike UAV total AI control, at this current level of AI intelligence anyway, no telling what it might bomb. The best bet is for the UAV to operate on AI control until it notices and designates a target of interest, then it notifies its human controller who can make the decision on whether to prosecute the target or not. That way you can have one man controlling a squadron of UAVs who will be able to be tasked with attacking different targets with minimal human oversight. In a way, the human should be the safety, the go/no-go element of the UAV. It's not fool-proof, humans make mistakes too, probably more so than machines, but I think putting total control into AI hands is...quite honestly perhaps a little too risky right now, and possibly too risky in the future too. Skynet and all that.