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Bizav AI Agent Skyler: ‘AI Doesn’t Replace Humans’

Technology can speed up the process but doesn’t replace human oversight

Tuvoli president and CEO Greg Johnson — Tuvoli president and CEO Greg Johnson gave the keynote presentation at the AI Symposium for Business Aviation with Embry-RIddle Aeronautical University College of Business dean Joe Gibney and a business aviation AI agent named Skyler. © Chad Trautvetter/AIN

By Chad Trautvetter • Online Editor

September 15, 2026

A business aviation artificial intelligence (AI) agent named Skyler demonstrated its capabilities by joining Tuvoli president and CEO Greg Johnson and Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University College of Business dean Joe Gibney in a live keynote presentation this morning at the AI Symposium for Business Aviation at the university’s Daytona Beach, Florida campus. Asked by Johnson what the industry most misunderstands about the technology, Skyler said, “Many believe that AI is just another software feature,” adding that AI “doesn’t replace humans.”

Johnson said he hopes the inaugural event, co-hosted by Tuvoli, ERAU, and NATA, will help attendees—aircraft operators, technology experts, college students, and others—embrace what is coming and influence what comes next for AI in business aviation. Gibney added that students from ERAU and other universities were specifically included because “they don’t know what isn’t possible” and thus will push boundaries to shape AI.

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