No, they rolled out a new AI-driven ATC system yesterday. Surprise surprise, it doesn't work.

Jensen fucked the pilots

Testing for martial law.

Too much coincidence. Is it retaliation from Ukrainian Allies in response to being cut off from Elon Musk's Starlink? Is it Iranian Hackers? It seems like the USA has gained some powerful enemies lately as the coincidence of these two things happening back to back is starting to make me wonder what's next.

It's worst apparently they rolled out a new AI tool nationwide yesterday

The last time something like this happened for any length of time was 9/11, so that's not an unreasonable reaction.

Always best to be prepared, couldn't hurt to check and see what other forms of transportation you may be able to take home. I missed a flight once, renting a car got me home faster than waiting for the next plane

They will probably have it sorted by then, hang in there.

I was stuck in Tortola during hurricane Lenny in 1999. When I got back 4 days late, I found out that I had been part of a mass layoff.

Microsoft's big outage is beginning to affect more and more systems.

Turns out that even things which don't seem to depend on Microsoft can actually only last for a limited time if it goes away

They rolled AI tools out nationwide at the FAA just yesterday. Go figure.

They announced yesterday that they were rolling out a new AI ATC tool nationwide.

Actually, it happened just 3 years ago.

Actually less scary than if, say, Obama was president. (or even a Bush really)¹

Cuz a trump admin having a major shutdown could just mean his admin hired a Christian straight white cis male "DEI Hire" that was incompetent and flipped off a switch and shut the whole thing down.

::: spoiler

¹Cuz if it was a "status quo president", you know shit hit the fan (i.e. war or some shit), not just an innocent mistake :::

It's what happens when you put nut jobs and idiots in positions of power and control over a country

”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?

It will all be fine when ATC becomes ai

The FAA Is Rolling Out Its AI Air Traffic Tool Nationwide

The symptom of the underlying issue is centers not receiving radar data

I can assure you, radar is not tied into Outlook

I read that with a lisp

Israel wanted to use TempleOS but the creator wasn't racist enough for them.

Bet money Norway & Holland do.

Linux hadn't been invented yet when most of these were built. They're running software on bare metal for most systems

From your link:

Duffy said the outage is part of an ongoing problem with outdated technology that air traffic controllers rely on across the country.

“Many of our towers are almost 100 years old,” Duffy said. “Our air traffic controllers have leaky roofs. Air conditioning doesn’t work … their elevators don’t work.”

That is a blatant fucking lie and misdirection. Towers were operating fine. The issue was with centers, which operate underground

The fact he's lying tells me it was very likely related to their new SMART AI tool

This is a fair and unbiased opinion. DFW is trash.

While bad, I think this is linked to the Microsoft outages.

vibe coded FAA approved software?

Passed V,V&Eh?