Claim: A US Air Force-trained artificial intelligence  powered drone "attacked" its human operators and communications towers during a simulation.
Fact-check: The US Air Force has denied that an AI-powered drone 'attacked' operators in a simulation - Full Fact
Verdict: the us air force, which was the original source of this claim, has since denied this. it says the description of events was taken from a "hypothetical thought experiment" conducted outside the us military, and the us air force has not tested weaponised ai in the way described, either in real life or through a simulation.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Sarah Turnnidge
Date published: 2023-06-02T00:00:00