Ben Katz

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144 appearances 4 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 3d ago

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WSJ What’s News · Flying Into the Future: How Will AI Reshape the Aviation Industry? · 26 Jul 2026 podcast

The second thing is this idea of maintenance reports, right?

So much of the challenges that the FAA, the Federal Aviation Administration, has is just simply not knowing what's happening.

And that's partly because airlines or, you know, in the general aviation community from flight schools or private operators don't do the reporting that they necessarily are required to do.

that kind of leaves the FAA slightly in the dark.

So having these kind of automated systems that immediately pass on and collect data around, you know, any potential issues can really help catch anything before it can escalate to a real issue.

For a project we worked on last year, we actually analyzed over 1 million reports that are made to the FAA.

And, you know, with each one, there's different language that's used.

There are different acronyms.

You know, pilots are humans and they record things differently.

We deployed this AI that we created in-house, obviously highly checked and made sure that it was accurate.

to really help us pass through a lot of that language.

And what we found was pretty critical and really revealing.

And it's work that the FAA certainly is doing and something that AI can really be used to do in a way that ultimately will save lives.

The topics that we've covered up until now are, you know, really critical, really important, but in a way you could almost characterize them as kind of nice to have, right?

Save money, improve efficiency, improve safety.

For ATC, I mean, this is critical.

Having AI, having these systems...

is something that the industry doesn't just want to have.

We're at a point where we need it, and we need it really, really quickly.

The US has really been struggling over the last few years, but even before then, with massive shortages in air traffic controllers.

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