Engineering Notebook
AI at work: mastering the airspace
By Aaron Karp and Ben Iannotta
November 2024
U.K. researchers are in the midst of Project Bluebird, a multiyear effort to create competing versions of artificial intelligence agents to see if one could in theory be capable of autonomously controlling air traffic. Aaron Karp and Ben Iannotta spoke to researchers about their plans to conduct live trials in the safety of a digital twin of the airspace.