The US Air Force wants to use AI to help with its mid-air refuelling problems
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If the Air Force is trusting AI to grade mid-air refueling, AI is moving from decision support to safety-critical training infrastructure. Any operator with complex, high-stakes workflows should be scoping AI for error detection and coaching—not just for copilots in office software.
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