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.
Seems to be “communication issue”: FAA issues nationwide ground stop on all departing flights, citing ‘communication issue’
“Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said Friday that there’s “no indication as of yet that this was a nefarious attack against us.””
!asklemmy@lemmy.world
Thank God Markwayne is in that position of power. We’re in such good hands.
Interesting. This is basically exactly Microsoft’s AAR.
“It was malicious incompetence.”
Pretty much it. Besides the thing involving “floppy disks”, there was also something involving USian ATC staff some time ago. I’m not sure if that situation afforded a decision (I’m not USian), but it seems to me the USian ATC has a curious problem of being understaffed, and it’s very likely “management” want to add hallucination-prone AI to the staff. (“you’re absolutely right, I misidentified ACA770 as a foreign, hostile missile. Do you want to know more about the estimated amount of collateral damage, how much airplanes got misidentified as missiles today, or do you want me to investigate if there was a hidden missile smuggled inside the luggage compartment? Let me know how to proceed!”).
!asklemmy@lemmy.world
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.
Some guy with a backhoe
As opposed to, just, like, a regular attack.
The current, ongoing, insider attack