Former Inspector General of the United States Department of Transportation: ‘It’s Just Too Much of a Coincidence’ FAA Rolled Out New AI Traffic Tool Right Before Nationwide Ground Stop
>I’ll read right from their press release, their new artificial intelligence tool called SMART, to assist in managing air traffic across the entire national airspace system, and it says it won’t affect safety. It’s called strategic management of airspace routing systems, and of course, we need new systems. But many times in the past, what we have seen, and this has gone back decades, is that because air traffic control is this piecemeal, mishmash of a whole bunch of different systems, and just as Pete said, some going back to radio, telephones and floppy disks, but when they put in new computer systems, they often have difficulty talking with communicating with or working with the much older systems.
>And I have to say, it’s a tremendous amount of coincidence that right now, I mean, that they announced that they were going to start doing this, particularly since one of the goals of the SMART system — it’s not that we don’t need this — we need this. But one of the goals of the SMART system was to manage the en route traffic.
Former Inspector General of the United States Department of Transportation: ‘It’s Just Too Much of a Coincidence’ FAA Rolled Out New AI Traffic Tool Right Before Nationwide Ground Stop
>I’ll read right from their press release, their new artificial intelligence tool called SMART, to assist in managing air traffic across the entire national airspace system, and it says it won’t affect safety. It’s called strategic management of airspace routing systems, and of course, we need new systems. But many times in the past, what we have seen, and this has gone back decades, is that because air traffic control is this piecemeal, mishmash of a whole bunch of different systems, and just as Pete said, some going back to radio, telephones and floppy disks, but when they put in new computer systems, they often have difficulty talking with communicating with or working with the much older systems.
>And I have to say, it’s a tremendous amount of coincidence that right now, I mean, that they announced that they were going to start doing this, particularly since one of the goals of the SMART system — it’s not that we don’t need this — we need this. But one of the goals of the SMART system was to manage the en route traffic.