Did FAA's Newly Deployed AI System Cause the 9,000-Flight Ground Stop?
james_mtc · x · 2026-11-14
Author Don Winslow publicly pressed Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy to answer yes or no: did the AI system the FAA onboarded three days ago cause the federal ground stop of 9,000 flights? The question lands just as the FAA's AI routing tool SMART rolled out early nationwide; the FAA insists SMART only suggests routes and doesn't affect safety, and no evidence currently links it to the stop — but the timing has made the system a focal point of the controversy.
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