FAA Begins Retiring Decades Old Floppy Disks from Air Traffic Control

Re:FAA Begins Retiring Decades Old Floppy Disks from Air Tra... by consensus1 on Friday November 06, 2026 @12:47PM (#50395666)

Aren't you making the exact same mistake with AI? What has been the worst problem caused by AI so far?

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Re:FAA Begins Retiring Decades Old Floppy Disks from Air Tra... by idiotsecant on Friday November 06, 2026 @01:07PM (#50395989)

Famously it already broke out of containment many times and used exploits to illegally access and manipulate remote systems. Is this not enough for you? The fact that the target of the attack wasn't critical infrastructure is only a matter of circumstance.

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Re:FAA Begins Retiring Decades Old Floppy Disks from Air Tra... by lostlogin on Friday November 06, 2026 @03:15PM (#50397818)

Computers have skyrocketed in price, data center related equipment is impossible to get and ludicrously expensive and AI slop has infested almost everything I see online.

And then there are the safety issues.

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Re:FAA Begins Retiring Decades Old Floppy Disks from Air Tra... by nashashmi on Friday November 06, 2026 @03:32PM (#50398066)

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Re:FAA Begins Retiring Decades Old Floppy Disks from Air Tra... by drnick1 on Friday November 06, 2026 @06:27PM (#50399912)

It's not like targeting mistakes have not been made in the past. Also, we don't know how many civilian casualties AI has avoided, we only know the ones it caused.

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Re:FAA Begins Retiring Decades Old Floppy Disks from Air Tra... by nashashmi on Friday November 06, 2026 @08:49PM (#50400849)

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Re:FAA Begins Retiring Decades Old Floppy Disks from Air Tra... by throwaway2037 on Friday November 06, 2026 @10:53PM (#50401472)

    > Iranian schoolgirls were killed by assumably an AI-directed decision.

This is a pretty wild claim. Do you have any evidence?

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