AI for Aerospace and Electronic Systems: Technical Dimensions of Responsible Design

There are still no lessons to be learned from the brutality of the war in Ukraine, except perhaps one: Does not the flood of news show the difference between “combat power” and “combat value”? Even in this modern war, not only the countable and measurable technical material is important. Soldiers who are willing and able to fight, i.e., “citizens in uniform,” also “count”– those who know what they are fighting for, who know their homeland, who know how to defend themselves and their own with quantitatively inferior but technically adequate situation pictures and effective means. What does this insight mean for the complex “technosphere” of aerospace and electronic systems, which are critical in modern warfare and can only be controlled by humans through the world of algorithms, i.e., by artificially intelligent automation?