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Air force denies actual casualty and claims it was 'only a simulation', still problematic, assuming it stopped at a simulation: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/01/us-military-drone-ai-killed-operator-simulated-test
The above AI is allegedly the core of what's being used for these: https://www.wired.com/story/us-air-force-skyborg-vista-ai-fighter-jets/
You didn't ask for it but these are the drones that pick their own targets: https://www.npr.org/2021/06/01/1002196245/a-u-n-report-suggests-libya-saw-the-first-battlefield-killing-by-an-autonomous-d