About The Guest

Chris D. Gentile is a former F-22 Experimental Test Pilot, with over 20* (minor mistake in the audioclip) years in the United States Air Force where he was also the commander of the only unmanned aircraft system Production, Test, and Sustainment Detachment. He now is the Vice President, of EpiSci and supports a dedicated and brilliant team in developing, implementing, and deploying Tactical AI  trusted, explainable, bounded artificial intelligence for real-time, mission critical applications.

EpiSci is a multidisciplinary technology company developing AI for mission critical applications, including communications, networking, and autonomous systems. The core technology is Tactical AI, which is a framework for building modular, high-performance systems which combine the performance possible from RL/deep learning with assured safety & operational bounding and an explicit, trust-first design which is designed for manned-unmanned teaming in dynamic environments. 

About The Episode

Today with Chris Gentile we continue the discussion of how Artificial Intelligence is being integrated into weapons systems and the military overall. The discussion covers why AI should be adopted in the first place, potential issues with autonomous weapons systems, and what are some possible future scenarios of implementation.