MSgt. Michael Garrison with the Space and Missile Systems Center in Los Angeles has received an Airman’s Medal for saving the unconscious driver of a car and others potentially in the car’s path as it rolled down the street toward a cliff overlooking the beach below. Garrison drove his car ahead of the driverless car, parked, and ran back to the still moving car. He jumped in through the passenger window to reach the gear lever, throwing it into park and finally stopping the car. Meanwhile, Garrison’s wife, in his car with their child, had called emergency services to aid the woman driver, who had gone into a seizure. (SMC report by Peggy Hodge)
Concerned about how artificial intelligence might be used to generate target lists or operational plans, lawmakers want to expand limits on autonomous weapons to address mission planning and target selection. The House Armed Services Committee's version of the 2027 National Defense Authorization bill would direct the Pentagon to revise Defense…