House AI Task Force Chair sees uses for AI in aviation but warns that it must be verified.
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The chairman of the House Artificial Intelligence task force believes AI will be useful in aviation, but cautioned that trusting it is another matter. Some believe AI is here now for aviation, and some think it is a decade or more out, AI task force chair Rep. Jay Obernolte (R-California) told attendees at Honeywell's American Aviation Leadership Summit in Washington, D.C. last week.
"We need to do everything we can to put ourselves in a place where we can keep pace and deploy AI safely and intelligently,” he said
General Aviation Manufacturers Association director of global innovation and policy David Dunning shared the stage with Obernolte during the session. He asked if AI needs to be challenged. “Sure,” replied Obernolte, “never, never, ever assume that AI is correct if for no other reason than it is trained on broad information that is fallible.”
The task force wants domains like aviation to regulate the use of AI through existing agencies such as the FAA. There needs to be guardrails, Obernolte said.
Obernolte has a masters in AI from UCLA and is a CFI and commercial helicopter pilot. Aviation companies must be careful in training AI, he said, adding that Scale AI is “the most important company you have never heard of” because it knows how to get the right data to train algorithms.
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Lawmaker Advises Cautious Approach for AI in Aviation
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The chairman of the House Artificial Intelligence task force believes AI will be useful in aviation, but cautioned that trusting it is another matter. Some believe AI is here now for aviation, and some think it is a decade or more out, AI task force chair Rep. Jay Obernolte (R-California) told attendees at Honeywell's American Aviation Leadership Summit in Washington, D.C. last week.
"We need to do everything we can to put ourselves in a place where we can keep pace and deploy AI safely and intelligently,” he said
General Aviation Manufacturers Association director of global innovation and policy David Dunning shared the stage with Obernolte during the session. He asked if AI needs to be challenged. “Sure,” replied Obernolte, “never, never, ever assume that AI is correct if for no other reason than it is trained on broad information that is fallible.”
The task force wants domains like aviation to regulate the use of AI through existing agencies such as the FAA. There needs to be guardrails, Obernolte said.
Obernolte has a masters in AI from UCLA and is a CFI and commercial helicopter pilot. He said if he were flying into an uncontrolled airport, AI could tell him that a student pilot would be on downwind when he is. He wouldn’t trust the position prediction, but the heads-up would be useful.