The Federal Aviation Administration said Friday that it was halting all departing flights “due to extraordinary circumstances and for reasons of safety.”
”The use of artificial intelligence within SMART has rightfully raised serious questions about its reliability and safety benefits, particularly on its potential to interfere with decision-making by experienced air traffic controllers or to hallucinate safety-critical information.”
Excellent use case for AI. An industry where a single mistake can lead to a fiery crash and hundreds of deaths.
yeah the broadcast news is saying its not supposed to do that but isn’t ai not supposed to randomly hack another site and such. haven’t we been innudated with ai going outside its parameters articles?
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) says the $875 million SMART system has helped reroute 180 flights since being implemented in airspace over Washington, DC, on September 21.
It sounds like this story is saying they are increasing its usage now.
The day after the FAA started rolling out its AI tools, what a surprise.
I guess the LLM found the most common way to prevent airplane accidents is to not fly.
Excellent use case for AI. An industry where a single mistake can lead to a fiery crash and hundreds of deaths.
ARS link:
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/11/faa-expands-ai-advice-to-manage-air-traffic-congestion-across-entire-us-airspace/
yeah the broadcast news is saying its not supposed to do that but isn’t ai not supposed to randomly hack another site and such. haven’t we been innudated with ai going outside its parameters articles?
Big Clarke & Dawe vibes
Hopefully this will help finish popping the bubble
Coincidence. It’s actually because they finally stopped using floppies, but without realising how important they are to aviation safety.
The article is from yesterday, but is that when the rollout actually happened?
From arstechnica:
It sounds like this story is saying they are increasing its usage now.