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AI is being used to resurrect the voices of dead pilots
In the latest sign of these AI-heavy times, the National Transportation Safety Board temporarily removed access to its docket system after discovering that voices of pilots who were killed in a UPS plane crash last year had been…
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The National Transportation Safety Board temporarily shut down public access to its docket system after AI‑generated recreations of pilots’ voices from a UPS crash appeared online. Federal law bars the NTSB from posting cockpit audio recordings, yet the accident docket for that flight contained a spectrogram file of the voice recorder. A spectrogram mathematically transforms sound frequencies into an image, enabling the AI‑based reconstruction of the deceased pilots’ speech.
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