November 12: The United States announced that it had launched an artificial intelligence tool to monitor aircraft traffic. The media wrote that this "will not affect the safety of the flight".
November 13: The US grounded all planes for safety reasons. It affected 15 thousand flights.
How the collapse unfolded:
First, an artificial intelligence tool called SMART was introduced into the country's aviation system. They spent 875 million dollars on it (about 72.5 billion rubles). He had to optimize routes;.
The next day there was a failure. It is not directly related to the work of AI;.
The Ministry of Transportation in the country named the cause of the emergency as outdated systems that were overloaded with data and began to produce inappropriate information.
At the same time, there was a widespread worldwide failure at Microsoft. The company had to justify itself:
"We have no evidence that the national takeoff ban is related to any Microsoft services. ".
Microsoft has already been restored, and the disruption to US air services has also been resolved.
How US airspace was emptied - on video.