Can AI Improve Aviation Safety? – Episode 331
Can artificial intelligence (AI) make aviation safer? In this episode, Todd Curtis and John Goglia explore ways that AI tools are being used to analyze safety data, identify trends, and improve communication across the aviation industry.
Todd shares a project that uses the AI platform Claude along with reports from NASA’s Aviation Safety Reporting System (ASRS) database to create a customized safety report modeled after the ASRS CALLBACK publication. The discussion highlights how AI can help aviation professionals uncover valuable insights from large volumes of safety data.
Todd and John discuss how aviation professionals can get better results by understanding how to guide AI tools and evaluate their output.
The conversation also explores how safety management system (SMS) managers can use AI to better understand organizational risks, identify emerging issues, and improve safety decision-making.
Todd demonstrates how AI can transform written content into concise, media-ready sound bites and shares a downloadable resource that viewers can use to create their own custom audio clips.
Whether you’re an aviation professional, safety manager, mechanic, pilot, or simply interested in emerging technology, this episode offers practical examples of how AI may help shape the future of aviation safety.
Also in this show, John calls out the disservice of incorrect information being shared by one commenter on the UPS crash in Louisville, Kentucky. A prominent aviation safety podcaster who is also an airline pilot repeatedly talks about the #2 engine being affected by foreign object digestion (FOD), a fact not directly supported by the NTSB preliminary report.
Resources:
Examples of Custom NASA-styled reports for Maintenance Safety
- DCIAC_Maint_Issue_1.pdf
- DCIAC_Maint_Issue_2.pdf
- DCIAC_Maint_Issue_3.pdf
- DCIAC_Maint_Issue_4.pdf
- DCIAC_Maint_Production_Summary.pdf
- DCIAC_Maint_Report_Usage.pdf
- AI-produced how-to guide for creating media sound bites
- HTML page for use with sound bite how-to guide
claude_sound_bite_generator.html
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