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The FAA has expanded its use of SMART, an AI tool that advises air traffic controllers on managing congestion, across the US national airspace system, Ars Technica reports. That takes the tool from a narrower role to a nationwide one.
Why it mattersSMART offers advice, rather than taking control of aircraft or replacing controllers. The scale-up makes this a concrete deployment of AI in a safety-critical system, where the real test is whether its recommendations help people manage busy skies. Useful progress, if it proves itself in operation. The FAA’s announcement gives no performance figures in the account available here, so the promise is clearer than the scorecard.
Discuss: Should AI advice become standard across air traffic control only after published performance results, or is a nationwide rollout a reasonable way to gather them?
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