Was America's Nationwide Grounding of Aircraft Caused By Its New AI System?
America's nationwide grounding of flights on Friday happened "amid growing scrutiny... of a new AI-powered air traffic management system" deployed by America's Federal Aviation Administration, reports Texas news station KXAN. Ironically, the system is called SMART — but the outage happened "following warnings" from members of the U.S. Congress about this new AI system's safety, reliability and oversight: In an Oct. 13 letter to the Government Accountability Office, more than…