{"id":"n_bqgixsuw3z62ntgxdjha","seq":11122133,"kind":"community","title":"Was America's Nationwide Grounding of Aircraft Caused By Its New AI System?","url":"https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/11/14/125229/was-americas-nationwide-grounding-of-aircraft-caused-by-its-new-ai-system","summary":"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…","published":"2026-11-14T18:00:00Z","seen":"2026-11-14T18:06:00Z","lang":"en","source":{"id":"slashdot","name":"Slashdot","domain":"slashdot.org"},"via":"slashdot","topics":["technology"],"authors":["EditorDavid"],"entities":[{"id":"Q30","name":"United States","type":"place"}],"story":"st_bcfywp6fnz6zvf2vrb7q","category":"science-technology","category_p":0.76,"sentiment":"neutral","tone":-0.1,"political":0.37}