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America Trembles as Transportation Secretary Announces Plans for Air Traffic Controllers to Lean on AI Tools (futurism.com)

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[–] darthsundhaft@piefed.social 74 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

What I'm hearing is, they will literally risk people dying on planes just to train AI AND would rather do that than hire/employ actual staff that will do the work. Somehow, paying their staff a liveable wage and treating them like a human being just doesn't bode well enough for the rich people making these decisions.

This is fucking insane. I bet you that none of the places with private jets flying all these asshole c-suite execs are using AI. It's only being forced on the public because the idiots bought into the hype and don't know how else to make money out of it.

[–] redsand@infosec.pub 3 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Actually no them too. Peter Theil is shockingly stupid and crazy. He believes it'll work and if it doesn't he's so special nothing bad can happen to him

[–] auntieclokwise@lemmy.world 1 points 41 minutes ago

That would be one of the biggest ironies in history if Peter Theil ends up dying because the AI ATC he championed crashed him into some other evil exec. I'm thinking maybe Elon Musk.

[–] Burninator05@lemmy.world 5 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

...nothing bad can happen to him

Honest question: When was the last time something bad actually happened to these people?

[–] DiarrheaSommelier@lemmy.ca 2 points 18 minutes ago

That submarine imploded under the unbearable weight of a billionaire's hubris. The world got ever so slightly better that day.

Is there a way to convince more billionaires that 3rd-rate carbon fiber is a great building material for compression-loaded pressure vessels?

[–] redsand@infosec.pub 3 points 2 hours ago

Epstein if he's even dead. Dead insurance exec #1 that made luigi a verb.

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 23 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

I wonder how many plane crashes it'll take before this changes.

If at all.

[–] turtlesareneat@piefed.ca 6 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Look at how quick we got used to school shootings and climate change and death-squad healthcare and a bunch of other awfulnesses.

We are very good at taking abuse and carrying on with it.

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Aircraft accidents discourage tourism, though. Dead children is one thing, but this could affect people's bottom line.

[–] alsimoneau@lemmy.ca 5 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Tourism has been discouraged for a while, yet nothing is changing

[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

All it will take is one billionaire hitting another plane.

[–] PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 4 points 8 hours ago

Maybe it will happen to air force one too?