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Why is all air traffic in the US currently grounded until further notice? (piefed.ca)
submitted 23 hours ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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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.

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[–] 164 points 22 hours ago (17 children)

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.

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  • [–] 91 points 21 hours ago (9 children)

    They've officially denied this as being related.

    So it probably is.

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  • [–] 22 points 18 hours ago* (6 children)

    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

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  • [–] 1 point 11 hours ago (2 children)

    I hate that I can't say if that's satire or not, but I tend towards not Satire i think

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  • [–] 3 points 9 hours ago (1 child)

    That's a pretty faithful synopsis. If anything, they slobbered on Trump's wang a while too. I hate this world.

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  • [–] 6 points 21 hours ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 7 points 18 hours ago

    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.

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