The NTSB is pausing public access to investigations as AI tech accelerates.
Workaround flouts law that bans NTSB disclosures of cockpit audio recordings.
People used AI on a spectrogram image of cockpit recordings to reconstruct them, forcing the NTSB to temporarily block access to its docket system.
The NTSB shut down its public docket system after AI users reconstructed forbidden cockpit audio from UPS Flight 2976 using spectrogram images released during a hearing.
AI technology has been used to re-create the voices of pilots killed in a UPS plane crash, prompting the National Transportation Safety Board to restrict its docket system access.