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2024-01-15 -Great Cultural Revolution

FAA's diversity push includes focus on hiring people with ‘severe intellectual' and ‘psychiatric' disabilities

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Posted by Skidmark 2024-01-15 00:00|| || Front Page|| [36 views ] Top

#1 So Helen Keller would have been a prime recruit for an Air traffic controller.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2024-01-15 00:26|| 2024-01-15 00:26|| Front Page Top

#2 Scott Kirby, the CEO of United Airlines (@united
), wants to emphasize that Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI) guided racial and gender quotas are the key considerations when determining who will be piloting your upcoming flight.

Posted by 3dc 2024-01-15 04:38|| 2024-01-15 04:38|| Front Page Top

#3 didn't they just merge with Jewel?

Posted by 3dc 2024-01-15 05:06|| 2024-01-15 05:06|| Front Page Top

#4 You knew of course, it would eventually come to this, but what about all the people floating around in the aluminum tubes ?

Posted by Besoeker 2024-01-15 05:57|| 2024-01-15 05:57|| Front Page Top

#5 Start with the top positions, till we notice something different.

Posted by Procopius2k 2024-01-15 07:04|| 2024-01-15 07:04|| Front Page Top

#6 FAA had always included these in their hiring, we called them "upper management".

Posted by AlmostAnonymous5839 2024-01-15 09:14|| 2024-01-15 09:14|| Front Page Top

#7 Well, FBI, IRS, and TSA couldn't be allowed to get them all, could they?

Posted by ed in texas 2024-01-15 10:19|| 2024-01-15 10:19|| Front Page Top

#8 A key strategy component in the Biden Administration's Support Plan for AMTRAC!

Posted by NoMoreBS 2024-01-15 14:25|| 2024-01-15 14:25|| Front Page Top

#9 but what about all the people floating around in the aluminum tubes ?

Some of them will get the Elon Musk Zoom meeting chip. Others will go to Rekall(tm) - "We can remember it for you wholesale".

As people do worse at the ATC task because Diversity, Inclusion and Equity (DIE), AI will get better. Eventually, AI will replace the people because it does not have to be particularly good at a task, just better than humans.

Actually right now, with just a bit of training, ChatGPT is capable of generating properly formatted, syntactically correct ATC commands. Sure, sometimes they will be wrong, or even wildly inappropriate. But humans make mistakes too, right?

Other changes in the airline industry: Flight insurance will include a Killed by an AI clause. This came after American Airlines loses a lawsuit where they argued that since the plane was under control of an AI at the time of mishap, the AI was responsible for the crash, and since robots are not people, no one was legally liable.

Posted by SteveS 2024-01-15 18:00|| 2024-01-15 18:00|| Front Page Top

#10 So Joe has a job waiting for him.

Posted by Woodrow 2024-01-15 20:52|| 2024-01-15 20:52|| Front Page Top

#11 This type of decision-making will continue until the companies doing it are punished by those purchasing their products. Good luck with that in this industry.

Posted by Crusader 2024-01-15 23:26|| 2024-01-15 23:26|| Front Page Top

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