As of thirty-ish minutes ago ALL commercial air traffic in the US is grounded until further notice.
Anyone got any idea what’s going on? There are very free details about the situation I can find online right now.
As of thirty-ish minutes ago ALL commercial air traffic in the US is grounded until further notice.
Anyone got any idea what’s going on? There are very free details about the situation I can find online right now.
There’s no official word, but to add some context, the FAA deployed a new AI-powered computer system for air traffic control yesterday.
Again, no proof that that’s what’s going on. But it sure is interesting.
They’ve officially denied this as being related.
So it probably is.
I watched the press conference and they admitted that the AI (actually, it’s called SI) systems overloaded the old routers so that’s why we need $50B in emergency money from congress because Trump is a builder and he knows how to build and also previous administrations were also partly to blame
That’s the summary if you haven’t see the press conference
Screw the Carter admin for purposefully installing slow routers to sabotage future ai innitiatives.
I hate that I can’t say if that’s satire or not, but I tend towards not Satire i think
That’s a pretty faithful synopsis. If anything, they slobbered on Trump’s wang a while too. I hate this world.
Oh yeah holy, they were praising Trump like their lives depended on it. Trump knows how to build, he builds so well, he builds so fast, nobody can build like Trump…
FFS
I’m tired of being right.
Edit: who’s going to be the no-bid contract winner?
Four Seasons Aviation?
Honestly, with this administration, that’s practically a confirmation that it is AI.
With this administration it could be literally any number of dumb fucking reasons.
An AI posted system… powered on Copilot?..
As someone who’s grounded, this was my theory as well. They’re blaming old routers and software, but who wants to guess it couldn’t keep up with the roll out?
They didn’t deploy it yesterday. They expanded it yesterday. It has been in use for a couple months so far.
Well, they expanded it from a single test installation to nationwide on the 12th. Which meets my personal criteria for “deployment”.
The current SMART roll out should have been nothing but route optimization, if human controllers agreed. OTOH, that’s one hell of a coincidence if that was related.
It’s the SMART rollout for sure. The failure point was old analog hardware that couldn’t keep up with the sheer pummeling the AI algorithm was dishing out to accomplish effectively nothing the controllers couldn’t do before.
I bet it thought it was directing real air traffic but in reality it was traffic from Microsoft Flight Simulator.