”The use of artificial intelligence within SMART has rightfully raised serious questions about its reliability and safety benefits, particularly on its potential to interfere with decision-making by experienced air traffic controllers or to hallucinate safety-critical information.”

Excellent use case for AI. An industry where a single mistake can lead to a fiery crash and hundreds of deaths.

yeah the broadcast news is saying its not supposed to do that but isn't ai not supposed to randomly hack another site and such. haven't we been innudated with ai going outside its parameters articles?

ARS link:

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/11/faa-expands-ai-advice-to-manage-air-traffic-congestion-across-entire-us-airspace/

I guess the LLM found the most common way to prevent airplane accidents is to not fly.

Hopefully this will help finish popping the bubble

The agency wrote on Nov. 10 that after the D.C. test, it will “now use SMART in the airspace of all 22 centers across the country

ATC has 3 facility types: Tower, approach, and center

Center is for the largest/busiest airspaces. They operate from effectively a bunker in the middle of nowhere, using only instrumentation to track and direct traffic

Centers were the only ones unable to perform traffic separation duties, which is fairly telling

My tower was still operating fine. The center near me was not. They said they have no radar, making IFR traffic separation effectively impossible for them too control

I don't know if it was this SMART tool or not, but if it was, it'd look just like this

Also of note, the FAA gave controllers very little information about this ground stop. All they gave was an initial downtime estimate of ~7 hours

Coincidence. It's actually because they finally stopped using floppies, but without realising how important they are to aviation safety.

The article is from yesterday, but is that when the rollout actually happened?