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I find myself disagreeing with Lemmy more and more these days, but ATC seems like one of those things that could really benefit from AI. I don't like generative AI being pushed into everything these days either, but a well designed AI can take in all of the things an air traffic controller has to manage and identify things a controller might miss.
Of course this is a money making operation which isn't ideal because capitalism, but I'm fairly certain this will either reduce or maintain existing incident rates while making it more efficient
The issue is YOU are talking about REAL AI - statistical analysis and modeling leading to decision making with increasingly better fits.
The Transportation Secretary is most CERTAINLY vaguely referring to "that Claude thing that can do anything", and it's a series of plane crashes waiting to happen.
Couldn't agree with both of you more. There are opportunities to use analysis and modeling to make travel safer than ever, but I highly doubt the powers at be are interested.