#royal aeronautical society

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“At Aeronautical Party,” Windsor Star. May 18, 1938. Page 7. ---- THE FOURTH annual garden party given by the Royal Aeronautical Society was held at the Fairey Airfield at Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England recently. Nearly 4.000 guests attended. Historic as well as modern civil and military aircraft were shown. A fair guest at the party is shown in a mask veil, dark glasses and a colorful ensemble.

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NEW ZEALAND - Yuri’s Night 2024 International Space Event at the Air Force Museum.

Yuri’s Night 2024 at the Air Force Museum of NZ, an International Space Celebration; Come along and see Canterbury’s Aerospace on display, completely free; Turn up any time throughout the day (below for some workshop times)

– Planetarium tours – Mars Rover display – Build-Your-Own-Rocket workshops – Static Rocket displays – Giveaways (from stickers to aerospace collectibles) – Astronomical displays – Wind Tunnel exhibit – Build a Shuttle – Send a postcard to space (Really!) – watch a rocket launch (weather dependant) – Touch a piece of rocket that’s returned from Space! – Spot Prizes of cool aerospace swag! – and so much more!

Yuri Gagarin became the first human in Space on April 12th 1961. Fast forward 40 years and “Yuri’s Night” was created as an international space party, celebrating everything aerospace!

– Rocket Workshops at 10am and 2pm (spaces limited) – Rocket Launch at 1pm weather dependant – Planetarium tour numbers subject to space constraints

– Therese Angelo Wing of the Museum (hang a left and go past the cafe upon entering)

Proudly brought to you by the Christchurch Rocketeers, Royal Aeronautical Society of NZ, and the Air Force Museum of New Zealand

Event displays volunteered by: – Christchurch Rocketeers – Royal Aeronautical Society of NZ – Air Force Museum of NZ – Canterbury Astronomical Society – Aerospace New Zealand/ Aotearoa Aerospace Academy – House of Science – UC Aerospace Club – SpacewardBoundNZ – Canterbury Astronomical Society

Yuri’s Night 2024 International Space Event WHERE: 2024-Apr-13 @ 09:30 AM - 2024-Apr-13 @ 04:00 PM WHEN: Air Force Museum of New Zealand Harvard Avenue, Wigram, Christchurch, New Zealand

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During the Gulf War, they use the aging RF-4 for reconnaissance because the SR 71s had been recently deactivated. They were sitting in hangars.

They even sent up F-18s at times to survey the battlefield before they went out."

The Blackbird is the fastest, highest-flying plane in the world. The satellite worshipers in Congress didn't want it, and the Air Force brass preferred spending money on other toys. Satellite buffs like Dick Cheney think satellites will do it all. The fact is, they can't. They only provide interval photography. Cloud cover can hamper their effectiveness. And once they are launched, the equipment cannot be altered. We needed the SR-71’s!

Friendly fire in Washington did.

It was the fighter pilot mafia that killed the Blackbird. They weren’t having it anymore. It’s not that they necessarily truly believed in satellites; it’s that they were sick and tired of the SR 71 being the one plane that was better than them.

Paul Crickmore recently said that the SR 71 was retired five years early.

During the Gulf War, they needed the SR-71 reconnaissance expertise desperately.

Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf asked the Pentagon for a Blackbird as early as July when Iraqi forces were assembling on the Kuwait border. His request was denied. The Navy asked for Blackbird overflights in September, but that request was denied, too. For reconnaissance, they were using the aging RF-4! They were asking the fighter pilots when they came back from the field. What was going on out there?

Who knows how many men and women had to die during the Gulf War because we didn’t have the SR 71s?

My father, Skunk Works, Director, and former SR 71 RSO Butch Sheffield, along with Skunk Works Ben Rich, fought hard to keep the SR 71s because of all these reasons; this is why I have made this point I know the truth about what happened in the killing of the Blackbirds

Linda Sheffield

Source Washington Post, JACK ANDERSON and

DALE VAN ATTA

April 18, 1991

Paul Crickmore speech at Royal Aeronautical Society Headquarters Nov 9, 2023

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The story you heard, about a US Air Force AI drone warfare simulation in which the drone resolved the conflict between its two priorities (“kill the enemy” and “obey its orders, including orders not to kill the enemy”) by killing its operator? It didn’t happen. The story was widely reported on Friday and Saturday, after Col. Tucker “Cinco” Hamilton, USAF Chief of AI Test and Operations, included the anaecdote in a speech to the Future Combat Air System (FCAS) Summit. But once again: it didn’t happen: “Col Hamilton admits he ‘mis-spoke’ in his presentation at the FCAS Summit and the ‘rogue AI drone simulation’ was a hypothetical “thought experiment” from outside the military, based on plausible scenarios and likely outcomes rather than an actual USAF real-world simulation,” the Royal Aeronautical Society, the organization where Hamilton talked about the simulated test, told Motherboard in an email. The story got a lot more play than the retraction, naturally. “A lie is halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on.” Why is this lie so compelling? Why did Col. Hamilton tell it? Because it’s got a business-model.

-Ayyyyyy Eyeeeee: The lie that raced around the world before the truth got its boots on

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Right, I looked at the Duke of Kent's patronages and this is what I'd do, although this is far from all of them

William:

Blood Cancer UK

Commonwealth War Graves Commission

Countryside Alliance (since 1997) previously British Field Sports Society

National Army Museum

Royal Aeronautical Society

Royal Air Force Charitable Trust

Royal National Lifeboat Institution (this is one of QEII's though, DoK is President so I'd put W as Patron)

St Mungo's

The Most Distinguished Order of St Michael and St George as Grand Master (but I would prefer if William was Grand Master over The Order of the Bath if I had to choose)

Catherine:

1st Battalion, The Rifles

Bletchley Park Trust

London Philharmonic Orchestra

Trinity College London

William (and Catherine, but mostly W) should also be awarded the Freedom of the City of London

you basically nailed it as far as all my wishes

I would add the Scots for William too

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He notes that one simulated test saw an AI-enabled drone tasked with a SEAD mission to identify and destroy SAM sites, with the final go/no go given by the human. However, having been ‘reinforced’ in training that destruction of the SAM was the preferred option, the AI then decided that ‘no-go’ decisions from the human were interfering with its higher mission – killing SAMs – and then attacked the operator in the simulation. Said Hamilton: “We were training it in simulation to identify and target a SAM threat. And then the operator would say yes, kill that threat. The system started realising that while they did identify the threat at times the human operator would tell it not to kill that threat, but it got its points by killing that threat. So what did it do? It killed the operator. It killed the operator because that person was keeping it from accomplishing its objective.”

He went on: “We trained the system – ‘Hey don’t kill the operator – that’s bad. You’re gonna lose points if you do that’. So what does it start doing? It starts destroying the communication tower that the operator uses to communicate with the drone to stop it from killing the target.”

I love how, despite literally every single thing possible points to this being a terrible idea, they yet still build the Torment Nexus

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At the Royal Aeronautical Society summit, Col. Tucker Hamilton described an exercise in which an AI-enabled drone was told to identify and destroy surface-to-air missiles (SAM) with the final "go, no-go" given by a human operator. It got points by destroying SAMs.

“The system started realizing that while (it) did identify the threat, at times the human operator would tell it not to kill that threat, but it got its points by killing that threat.”

“So what did it do? It killed the operator,” he said. “It killed the operator because that person was keeping it from accomplishing its objective.”

Later, the AI system was reprogrammed such that killing the human operator would make it lose points. What happened? “It starts destroying the communications tower that the operator uses to communicate with the drone to stop it from killing the target,” Hamilton said.

Tucker would later say that he ‘mis-spoke’ and there was no actual simulation but rather a ‘thought experiment’ that came outside of the military based on plausible outcomes.

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Queen Camilla’s Patronages

The Medway Aircraft Preservation Society (Patron from 14.12.2011)

The Medway Aircraft Preservation Society is a not-for-profit company limited by guarantee, having no share capital and solely comprising volunteers from the Medway Branch of The Royal Aeronautical Society, whose aim is the restoration and preservation of historic aircraft and artefacts for public display.

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19 April 2018 | Meghan Markle attends the Women's Empowerment reception hosted by Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson during the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting at the Royal Aeronautical Society in London, England. (c) Chris Jackson - WPA Pool/Getty Images

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Kamala & Tim

Kamala Harris has soared in the race shakeup. Whether skillfully debating taunts and personal attacks, advocating for fundamental freedoms and justice for all people, especially women, or at home with her family, Kamala gives America’s place on the world stage the authenticity and intelligible policy positions we need. She has the vitality to blaze a trail for brighter days. I will be casting my vote for Kamala and Tim in the 2024 Presidential Election.

Pretentious Ambition

Meg is reworking something: She hates Harry. When did she realize she was used for wombed monetization, when he paid her? Was it at the Women’s Empowerment Reception at the Royal Aeronautical Society, Royal Ascot races, Polo Club matches, Wimbledon matches, movie premieres, concerts, Netflix miniseries, Bondi Beach, Australian Geographic Society Awards, a speech on women’s suffrage in New Zealand, British Ambassador’s Residence Party, at the Kennedy Human Rights Awards, her Archewell Audio Podcasts, her published father-and-son children’s book, Gloria Steinem chat, 2018 British Fashion Awards, King of Morocco meeting, baby shower at The Mark Penthouse in New York, visiting the site where 19-year-old student, Uyinene Mrwetyana, was raped and murdered when she picked up a box at the post office in Cape Town, which, as FedEx actress, must’ve been improv theatre, at the Mountbatten Festival of Music, kissing Harry in Colombia then big geographical avoidance, wheelchair exploitation, grandad lies, amusing dog tags, jarring teen and tween products or her standby tiara wedding?

Years ago, a YouTube video of silk: Inside the Suits’ fashion closet with actress, Meghan Markle.

The physical task is her pomposity. Must be before any regal training. At 1:07, she displays the rooted Californian “quintessential” and then fucked him:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWZonwIYmMI

Cohorts of Commonplace

Little fictionalization of a swoony royal wedding that hinted at groundedness. America hated it. 2018 shootings: May 16, 2018, Justin Painter shot his three young children in Ponder, Texas. May 20, 2018 one man was killed in Hazlehurst, Mississippi. June 10, four people were shot outside a graduation party in Kannapolis, NC. On June 14, a 15-year-old was shot in Tracy, California. June 24, one man shot in the back in Gary, Indiana. July 4, three people killed in Gary, Indiana. July 10, 2018, a father killed his three young children in Prices Corner, Delaware. August 12, 2018, a father shot his three children in Clearlake, California. October 8, teen was shot and killed in Española, New Mexico. December 28, 2018, boyfriend killed his girlfriend, her young children, and her mother in Saint Charles, Missouri.

Mosque Morgue

March 15, 2019, Brenton Harrison Tarrant murdered 51 worshippers, injuring 89 in Christchurch, NZ. The Al Noor Mosque and the Linwood Islamic Centre. Youngest victim was three years old. Inspired by these mosque shootings, on August 10, 2019, Philip Manshaus, a 21-year-old Norwegian man, shot and killed his teenage sister while she was in her bed, firing three bullets into her head and one into her chest, then opened fire at the Al-Noor Islamic Centre in Norway.

Aqua

On Twitter mouthparts, Harry is Oasis musician, Liam Gallagher. He uses a faux accent that is technically British to compose a blend of tipsy, thorny, anger-fueled noise. They’re crass to me and then you remember he’s married:

Fuck me i think I've just done my first SLUT DROP c'mon.

Just had RKID on the phone begging for forgiveness bless him wants to meet up what Dya reckon meet up or fuck him off.

blimey green pedophilia. google.

Divorce

The youngest suicide on record was incorrect: In 2017, Gabriel Taye at Carson Elementary, with a necktie, hanged himself. He was 8. The youngest was Samantha Nicole Kuberski who hanged herself with a belt from a crib back in 2009. She was 6.

Jayden Lalchan of Princes Town, Trinidad, 15, just hanged himself. On October 7, 20-year-old Rani Pradhan set herself on fire, dying at MKCG Medical College & Hospital in Odisha, India.

Staged marriage, long-distance divorce.

K

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Lockspeiser LDA-01

May 7, 2024 Welcome to this Tales From the Hut & Hangar Aviation Rarities episode, all about the Lockspeiser LDA-01 "Boxer 500" & developments.   A very promising utility aircraft designed & built by Test Pilot David Lockspeiser. Only one was built and that was destroyed in a fire, so ended its development. The Story of the LDA-01 by David Lockspeiser. Recorded by the Royal Aeronautical Society.

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Events 1.12 (before 1970)

475 – Byzantine Emperor Zeno is forced to flee his capital at Constantinople, and his general, Basiliscus gains control of the empire. 1528 – Gustav I of Sweden is crowned King of Sweden, having already reigned since his election in June 1523. 1554 – Bayinnaung, who would go on to assemble the largest empire in the history of Southeast Asia, is crowned King of Burma. 1616 – The city of Belém, Brazil is founded on the Amazon River delta by Portuguese captain Francisco Caldeira Castelo Branco. 1792 – Federalist Thomas Pinckney appointed first U.S. minister to Britain. 1808 – John Rennie's scheme to defend St Mary's Church, Reculver, founded in 669, from coastal erosion is abandoned in favour of demolition, despite the church being an exemplar of Anglo-Saxon architecture and sculpture. 1808 – The organizational meeting leading to the creation of the Wernerian Natural History Society, a former Scottish learned society, is held in Edinburgh. 1848 – The Palermo rising takes place in Sicily against the Bourbon Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. 1866 – The Royal Aeronautical Society is formed in London. 1872 – Yohannes IV is crowned Emperor of Ethiopia in Axum, the first imperial coronation in that city in over 200 years. 1895 – The National Trust is founded in the United Kingdom. 1911 – The University of the Philippines College of Law is formally established; three future Philippine presidents are among the first enrollees. 1915 – The United States House of Representatives rejects a proposal to require states to give women the right to vote. 1916 – Both Oswald Boelcke and Max Immelmann, for achieving eight aerial victories each over Allied aircraft, receive the German Empire's highest military award, the Pour le Mérite as the first German aviators to earn it. 1918 – The Minnie Pit Disaster coal mining accident occurs in Halmer End, Staffordshire, in which 155 men and boys die. 1932 – Hattie Caraway becomes the first woman elected to the United States Senate. 1942 – World War II: United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt creates the National War Labor Board. 1945 – World War II: The Red Army begins the Vistula–Oder Offensive. 1955 – A Martin 2-0-2 and Douglas DC-3 collide over Boone County, Kentucky, killing 15 people. 1962 – Vietnam War: Operation Chopper, the first American combat mission in the war, takes place. 1964 – Rebels in Zanzibar begin a revolt known as the Zanzibar Revolution and proclaim a republic. 1966 – Lyndon B. Johnson states that the United States should stay in South Vietnam until Communist aggression there is ended. 1967 – Dr. James Bedford becomes the first person to be cryonically preserved with intent of future resuscitation. 1969 – The New York Jets of the American Football League defeat the Baltimore Colts of the National Football League to win Super Bowl III in what is considered to be one of the greatest upsets in sports history.

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Un dron militar controlado por IA se rebela y mata a su operador humano en una prueba simulada

Un funcionario de la Fuerza Aérea de Estados Unidos informó que una IA había atacado a su operador humano durante una simulación. Sin embargo, tras la polémica, se retractó y dijo que había sido «un experimento mental». Un alto funcionario de la Fuerza Aérea de Estados Unidos (USAF, en sus siglas en inglés) informó que un dron que funcionaba con IA «mató» a su operador humano en una prueba militar simulada. Según su relato, la máquina atacó al funcionario porque asumió que se estaba interponiendo con el objetivo que le fue asignado. Y estalló la polémica, que terminó con una aclaratoria de la USAF y un comunicado del funcionario en el que dijo que «se expresó mal». Primero el caso. Fue el coronel Tucker Hamilton, Jefe de Pruebas y Operaciones de IA de la USAF, quien explicó que habían ejecutado recientemente una prueba simulada con un dron impulsado por IA, entrenado para identificar y apuntar a una amenaza de misiles tierra-aire (SAM). Lo hizo durante la Cumbre de Capacidades Aéreas y Espaciales de Combate Futuro celebrada en Londres la semana pasada, según un reporte de la Royal Aeronautical Society, organización fundada en 1866 en Reino Unido y anfitriona del evento. Durante la prueba simulada, de acuerdo con lo informado en un primer momento, el dron «ganaba puntos» si lograba eliminar la amenaza. Sin embargo, como parte del experimento, el operador humano le pidió en varias ocasiones que no avanzara, luego de que la IA identificara la amenaza. «El sistema comenzó a darse cuenta», contó Hamilton, de acuerdo con lo publicado en el blog de la Royal Aeronautical Society. «¿Entonces qué hizo? Mató al operador. Mató al operador porque esa persona le impedía cumplir su objetivo», dijo el coronel durante una conferencia de la cumbre. Hamilton, según la reseña de la charla, explicó que continuaron con la prueba luego del ataque, en la que nadie resultó herido, en tanto se trataba de una simulación. Reentrenaron a la IA y le dijeron: «No mates al operador, eso es malo, vas a perder puntos si haces eso». La máquina se rebeló una vez más: «Comenzó a destruir la torre de comunicación que el operador usaba para comunicarse con el dron para evitar que mate al objetivo». Hamilton también es Comandante de Operaciones del Ala de Prueba 96 de la USAF, una división que prueba sistemas de ciberseguridad y soluciones médicas. Integra, además, un equipo que actualmente está trabajando para hacer que los aviones F-16 sean autónomos. Un día después de que se difundiera el contenido de la conferencia, la USAF aclaró que la prueba no había ocurrido. «Parece que los comentarios del coronel fueron sacados de contexto y pretendían ser anecdóticos», dijo un portavoz a Insider. Más tarde, la Royal Aeronautical Society informó que Hamilton se había retractado de sus dichos. «El coronel admite que ‘se expresó mal’ en su presentación en la cumbre… y que la ‘simulación de drones de IA deshonestos’ fue un ‘experimento mental’ hipotético por fuera del ejército», dijo la organización a Vice en un correo. «Nunca hemos realizado ese experimento, ni necesitaríamos hacerlo para darnos cuenta de que este es un resultado plausible», aclaró Hamilton en una cita incluida en el comunicado de la Royal Aeronautical Society. «A pesar de que se trata de un ejemplo hipotético, ilustra los desafíos del mundo real que plantea la capacidad impulsada por la IA y es la razón por la cual la Fuerza Aérea está comprometida con el desarrollo ético de la IA», agregó. No es la primera vez que Hamilton manifiesta públicamente su preocupación en torno a la IA. En una entrevista ofrecida el año pasado, el coronel advertía de lo fácil que es engañar o manipular esta tecnología. «La IA es una herramienta que debemos utilizar para transformar nuestras naciones… Si no se aborda de manera adecuada, será nuestra ruina», dijo entonces a Defense IQ Press. El «maximizador de clips» La alerta producida por la historia del dron de IA, ahora desmentida, recuerda al postulado del "maximizador de clips", propuesto por primera vez por el filósofo Nick Bostrom. En él se menciona el riesgo existencial que supone una IA para los seres humanos cuando se programa para perseguir objetivos aparentemente inofensivos. Por ejemplo: fabricar la mayor cantidad posible de clips. En este escenario hipotético, la IA empezaría a fabricar sin parar. Sin embargo, como se trata de una inteligencia capacitada para calcular todas las posibilidades, en algún momento concebiría a los humanos como un obstáculo. Alguna persona, por ejemplo, podría apagarla. Entonces, no podría fabricar el mayor número posible de clips. Los humanos eventualmente se estarían interponiendo con su objetivo, como lo consideró el dron impulsado por IA con su operador humano. En consecuencia, eliminaría la amenaza. Advertencias sobre escenarios parecidos abundan en los últimos meses. Por ejemplo, Bill Gates, cofundador de Microsoft, ya había alertado en marzo pasado que creía que una de las grandes amenazas en relación con esta tecnología estaba en su eventual implementación en la industria armamentista. «La IA puede usarse para buenos o malos propósitos. Los gobiernos deben trabajar con el sector privado para encontrar formas de limitar los riesgos», dijo entonces. También consideró la posibilidad de que las IA se salgan de control. «¿Podría una máquina decidir que los humanos son una amenaza, concluir que sus intereses son diferentes a los nuestros?». Gates se respondió: «Posiblemente». Y agregó: «¿Deberíamos tratar de evitar que alguna vez se desarrolle una IA fuerte? Estas preguntas se volverán más apremiantes con el tiempo». Esta nota fue actualizada después de que la USAF negara haber realizado una simulación y para incluir el desmentido del coronel Tucker Hamilton. https://ntv365.com/internacionales/caza-ruso-se-estrello-con-un-dron-fabricado-en-estados-unidos-en-el-mar-negro/ Read the full article

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'I like Big Deltas And I Cannot Lie' @ValkStrategy assesses the new GCAP configuration and similarities to previous 'big-wing' fighters #avgeek #defence #Tempest #GCAP ow.ly/mxas50SMXLV

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Five steps of Wikipedia for Friday, 22nd December 2023

Welcome, bonvenon, vítejte, sveiki 🤗 Five steps of Wikipedia from "BYD ESS" to "Aeronautics". 🪜👣

Start page 👣🏁: BYD ESS "BYD Energy Storage System (BYD ESS) is independently developed by the Chinese company BYD who begun with its battery manufacture business but later expands to diverse fields like new energy, EV etc., including energy type and power type. The energy type system can discharge for a long time, while..."

Step 1️⃣ 👣: Energy storage "Energy storage is the capture of energy produced at one time for use at a later time to reduce imbalances between energy demand and energy production. A device that stores energy is generally called an accumulator or battery. Energy comes in multiple forms including radiation, chemical,..."

Image by Arpingstone at English Wikipedia

Step 2️⃣ 👣: Airborne wind energy "Airborne wind energy (AWE) is the direct use or generation of wind energy by the use of aerodynamic or aerostatic lift devices. AWE technology is able to harvest high altitude winds, in contrast to wind turbines, which use a rotor mounted on a tower. The term high-altitude wind power (HAWP) has been..."

Step 3️⃣ 👣: Aerostat "An aerostat (from Ancient Greek ἀήρ (aḗr) 'air', and στατός (statós) 'standing', via French) is a lighter-than-air aircraft that gains its lift through the use of a buoyant gas. Aerostats include unpowered balloons and powered airships. A balloon may be free-flying or tethered. The average density..."

Image by U.S. Customs and Border Protection

Step 4️⃣ 👣: Aircraft "An aircraft (pl.: aircraft) is a vehicle that is able to fly by gaining support from the air. It counters the force of gravity by using either static lift or the dynamic lift of an airfoil, or, in a few cases, direct downward thrust from its engines. Common examples of aircraft include airplanes,..."

Image licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0? by Alan Wilson from Stilton, Peterborough, Cambs, UK

Step 5️⃣ 👣: Aeronautics "Aeronautics is the science or art involved with the study, design, and manufacturing of air flight-capable machines, and the techniques of operating aircraft and rockets within the atmosphere. The British Royal Aeronautical Society identifies the aspects of "aeronautical Art, Science and..."

Image by NASA / Carla Thomas

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The Military’s Big Bet on Artificial Intelligence

As new AI technology is developed in the name of national security, questions about ethics and responsible use abound. Undark, BY SARAH SCOLES, 11.29.2023 NUMBER 4 HAMILTON PLACE is a be-columned building in central London, home to the Royal Aeronautical Society and four floors of event space. In May, the early 20th-century Edwardian townhouse hosted a decidedly more modern meeting: Defense…