US and China Urged to Agree Limits on Autonomous Fighter Aircraft

Rapid advances in military artificial intelligence have made it an urgent priority for the United States and China to agree on limits covering mission scopes, operational areas and target parameters for autonomous fighter aircraft. The warning follows close encounters between the two countries' aircraft that involved human pilots, with the next such incident potentially involving aircraft carrying no one on board. The call for agreed rules was published as an opinion piece by the South China Morning Post. No specific dates, locations or named individuals were given in the source material.