True, if they try this with a llm that's both stupid and will kill people. I disagree that no one will be responsible, who ever made that system should be responsible.

Only use of a llm MAYBE interpting the speech over the comms between control tower and pilots and using that to put entries in the tracker for who is going where. This could also be a simple program on a screen, click the plane tag, click what it's going to do(take off, land, taxi, etc), click where that will happen and then you don't need any llm.

Still Ai because the computer is determining if there will be a collision and activating alarms but that's deterministic and prove able. Plane a is at 7500 ft 7 miles out traveling at 2500 mph towards runway 47r. Plane b is at 35000 feet 20 miles out traveling at 4000 mph, can plane b also use runway 47r? Yes you can do the math to calculate. But let's say you make a mistake and drop a 0 somewhere, wouldn't it be nice to have an additional system that alerts you if the minimum distance between planes will be less than 1000ft for example?

?? I don't even know what this means...

In most cases this will not cause "planes to fall out of the sky". There is a serious risk of more ground collisions which are also horrible if poorly implemented. Air traffic control is for airports, not pilots. Depending on definition of Ai this could be good or bad. If it's Llms trying to do this it's totally a bad idea, not even what they are meant to do.

There are systems that detect planes and land vehicles at an airport. Currently air traffic controllers have to keep all these in mind and estimate their future location. I could see Ai uses in this to have more accurate calculations of future locations and confirmations that two planes should nit collide. Those are all deterministic and "Ai". As I said in other thread only llm use I could maybe see is if they try to interpret the voice comms between pilot and tower but that could just be a simple form app the atc just taps.

Here's the confusion I suspect... Every thing wants to put Ai in their sales pitch because it's the new hotness, many uses of "Ai" are not llm and can be deterministic and useful... We don't know what they mean by "Ai". The llm form of Ai is what gets attention but it totally useless in a lot of cases. People assume ai means llm due to news stories about llm but marketing departments are like "how can we incorporate the word Ai into this announcement?" which the engineers are like "Umm.. Well technically this counts as Ai" and marketing runs with it...