Research
Aviation should bring in AI the way it brings in anything that affects safety, and test it before trusting it. Our own tests and reviews, written up in plain English.
The write-ups
Finished · Our own test
Same actions, different endings
Do large language models judge flight crews by how a flight ended? We gave three of them 48 real occurrences, each with a safe and a bad ending, and asked them to apply Reason’s culpability decision tree. All three were harsher when it ended badly.
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Finished · Desk review
Off-the-shelf AI in aviation safety and compliance
General-purpose AI tools are easy to trust on things they get wrong. Seven ways that happens in safety and compliance work, with an example of each, and what to do about it.
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In progress
A benchmark for aviation regulation questions
An open benchmark of how well AI answers these questions. Practitioners write them with help from a model, part of the set is held back, the marking is blind, and we’ll publish the method with the results.
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