NTSB Halts Public Docket Over AI-Recreated Cockpit Voices
TL;DR
The NTSB has temporarily disabled its online docket after spectrograms from a cockpit voice recording from UPS Flight 2976 allowed AI-based reconstruction of pilots’ voices, highlighting the 1990 federal ban on publicly releasing cockpit audio. The agency typically restricts access and relies on manual transcription for investigations, and is reviewing how public materials can be used as AI tools enable re-creations before restoring the docket.
- US scrambles to stop Internet users re-creating dead pilots’ voices Ars Technica
- A PDF let the internet hear the final words in the cockpit of a UPS plane as it crashed. The NTSB now wants it taken down CNN
- AI is being used to resurrect the voices of dead pilots TechCrunch
- NTSB restricts website access after users recreate Louisville UPS crash cockpit audio WDRB
- This image shut down a US accident database. The Verge
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