Air Force Needs AI, Better Technology to Gather Intel
Intelligence gathering in future will take more than drones.
Monitoring and mining social media in real time via an automated artificial intelligence is another way the Air Force and other military branches can obtain information, the head of the service said Wednesday.
“When the Russians shot down the airliner, and we were searching for the smoking gun, we found it a month later — on Facebook,” Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Goldfein said, referring to Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, which was shot down over Ukraine in 2014 by pro-Russian separatists using a Buk surface-to-air missile system. All 298 aboard died.
