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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[–] 4 points 22 hours ago

The new AI system, SMART, was at this point only going to perform route optimization, a thing AI/ML should excel at, and human controllers had to agree. It was never to take over from real ATC controllers.

OTOH, one hell of a coincidence that they rolled out stage one on the 10th and 3 days later we got serious problems. My bet? The new system was fine in isolation but broke older shit when released.

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