LOL. Fuck that. I'm not flying.

a data analytics tool that will help advance the agency’s modernization objectives for aviation safety.

SMART will cost $12 billion, and will supposedly help flight controllers schedule flights weeks in advance to cut down on delays.

“This software will say, ‘well, listen, we can see this 45 days out. Let’s move some of those flights a little bit later, or five, seven, 10 minutes earlier, and we can resolve the issue. And so then you are not delayed,'” Duffy said.

Nothing in any of the facts as reported there suggest the use of language models, except for the editorialising in the summary about how LLMs hallucinate things, which makes me wonder about how competent Futurism's tech journalism is.

So when, and i do mean when, this results in a crash, who will be held responsible?

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Yet another reason not to go to the USA.

Well, once the mistakes start to pile up I will probably get a lot less judgement from others about my apprehension of flying.

We just need one rich asshole in a private jet to crash due to ATC failure for them to care.

I tried to use AI to install a reverse osmosis water system yesterday, I asked it to look at manual for hose colors to match them, I figured it would save me a few mins.

After an hour of it not working and trying all sorts of nonsense I looked in manual to have it show me it had given me all the wrong information to a simple task.

I can't wait to have people's lives reliant on this technology.

We don't have enough air traffic controllers.

We use AI to reduce their workload. <---- We are here

We don't need as many air traffic controllers.

We sack more air traffic controllers.

We don't have enough air traffic controllers.

Will this affect my miles program? Anyways, I’m gearing the family up for the exciting trip of a lifetime. We are going to reenact a trace of the Lewis & Clark trail for seven days. It will be in August along the Great Plains. With nothing but authentic gear of the time allowed. The kids should love it.

Oh helllll to the nawh nawh nawh

when you have the pilot and microslop copilot:

for entertainment purposes only

My mistake, you’re absolutely right -- I neglected to ensure the runway was clear before scheduling that landing. Please accept my apologies for causing those deaths. I’m really glad to be working with you, it’s reassuring that you’ll always keep me honest. You’re not just an assistant traffic controller -- you’re a friend.

Fuck AI for this, but there's a lot of room in ATC for further automation. To be perfectly honest, if the planes can more or less land themselves, and they're all fly-by-wire, I could see nearly automating the whole thing. Phase it in over a 10-year plan... computers HAVE to be able to be better at this than one unpaid, overworked, under-rested controller.

Let's say the error rate is 0.1%. Pretty low, right. But that's one mistake per thousand flights. Are they really okay with one plane out of a thousand potentially crashing? There are certain industries and jobs where AI simply cannot and should not be used.

Ah, the blameless AI got people killed. Sue the company, then whittle it down because no raindrop programmer was responsible for the flood that killed hundreds, then wait for people to give up in appeals while the lawyers get rich.

Prompt unclear, plane stuck in skyscraper.

So even flying over America without landing there is going to become dangerous.

Best choose flights with Polar routes, going the other way around or which fly over South America instead.

Maybe this will finally bring back a solid rail and bus transit infrastructure again.

I really have zero reason to fly now. The risk is way to high under this fascist administration.

People just straight up believe AI is magic.

National Geographic producers are rubbing their hands knowing that future seasons of Air Crash Investigations are secure.

Wow. Just wow. This sounds like a disaster waiting to happen. So, how will the AI cope with a pilot not following instructions and/or confused by the instructions? Or better yet, how about weather events? It looks like self-driving cars, but with airplanes. If done even slightly incorrectly, it will be disastrous, but if it is not a real-time tool and has a human that actually checks its recommendations and acts accordingly, then it might be okay. Either way, I will be avoiding flying once this rolls out. WOW.

The next 9/11 will be AI powered. A.I. Qaeda is a truly terrifying prospect.

In the future when anyone suggests some cockamamie idea, they are going to say "That was another Trump era failure. We already tried it, and it didn't work."

Then some dummy will say "Yeah, but that was Trump. He was an idiot. We'll do it right!" And then we'll waste another few billion.