There's a major shortage of Air Traffic Controllers in this country. It's a job that requires great skill and situational awareness, because many lives are at stake.

Combine that with the DEI crap being shoved on them, and you get tragic events like this recent crash. I really hate to fly and if I'm lucky I never will again, but our modern world depends on it.

I truly believe this is the perfect opportunity for AI to shine. Get the human factor out of it and run the whole process with intelligent computers. Hell, move it into the cockpit, keep a trained pilot up front just for emergencies. Then double and triple the redundancy and never have to use them.

I wrote assembly code for the Flight Data Recorders made by Sundstrand out of Bellevue, WA back in the early nineties, so I have a connection, and an opinion.

These things are only opened when people die.