I am less impressed
The first aircraft autopilot was created and functioning in 1912
Essentially an AI flying an F16 is an autopilot with a navigation routing system and a collision avoidance system to stop it crashing into anything it encounters en-route.
The F16 was the first fly by wire fighter jet.
Fly by wire is a computer doing all the flying and a pilot simply directs the computer where to go.
The F16 is completely unstable in flight and a pilot cannot fly it on his own without crashing, the flight computer does all the flying and keeps the F16 in the air.
Before the AI was fitted to the F16, the F16 was already 99% of the way towards complete AI flight.
But that last 1% is the deal breaker.
This made the F16 an ideal candidate for an AI flight control system, the only pieces missing from the puzzle were the programmable navigation system for routing and a collision avoidance system.
My concerns are that self driving cars are much the same as a computer controlled F16, they can stay on the road without a driver and go where the road takes them, The F16 can stay in the air without a pilot and goes where the nav system takes it.
Self driving cars still cannot cope reliably with people dogs cats and other unexpected hazards encountered on the road.
AI flown jet fighters are likely to be unable to cope with balloons birds and a variety of other hazards encountered in the air.
If they cannot make a car based AI cope with cats and dogs how likely is it they can make a plane based AI cope with birds.
Drivers can avoid cats and dogs and pilots can avoid birds and balloons
I have my doubts that the AI is as far forward as is suggested.