
Shield AI, the startup defense technology company specializing in artificial intelligence technology to pilot aircraft, said that Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall will soon fly on the VISTA X-62 aircraft, a modified F-16 fighter equipped with the company’s Hivemind AI piloting software. Kendall last week told the Senate Appropriations Defense Subcommittee that he would be flying on an AI-piloted F-16, that will also include a manned pilot. Later in the week, he told reporters at the Space Symposium in Colorado…