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The chairman of the House Artificial Intelligence task force believes&nbsp;AI will be useful in aviation, but cautioned that trusting it is another matter.&nbsp;Some believe AI is here now for aviation, and some think it is a decade or more out, AI task force&nbsp;chair Rep. Jay Obernolte (R-California) told attendees at Honeywell's&nbsp;American Aviation Leadership Summit in Washington, D.C. last week.
"We&nbsp;need to do everything we can to put ourselves in a place&nbsp;where we can keep pace and deploy AI safely and intelligently,” he said
General Aviation Manufacturers Association director of global innovation and policy David Dunning shared the stage with&nbsp;Obernolte during the session. He asked if AI needs to be challenged.&nbsp;“Sure,” replied Obernolte, “never, never, ever assume that AI is correct if for no other reason than it is trained on&nbsp;broad information that is fallible.”
The task force wants domains like aviation to regulate the use&nbsp;of AI through existing agencies such as the FAA. There needs to be guardrails, Obernolte said.&nbsp;
Obernolte has a masters in AI from UCLA and is a CFI and commercial helicopter pilot. Aviation companies must be careful in training AI, he said, adding that Scale AI is “the most important company&nbsp;you have never heard of” because it knows how to get the right data to train algorithms.

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