{
  "id": 19874478,
  "title": "FAA ground stop: Ex-Transportation Dept. Inspector General questions newly deployed SMART AI tool amid ‘extraordinary’ outage",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/13/faa-ground-stop-ex-transportation-dept-inspector-general-questions",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-11-13T22:07:05.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Hindustan Times - World News",
    "slug": "hindustan-times-world-news",
    "url": "https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-news/faa-ground-stop-ex-transportation-dept-inspector-general-questions-newly-deployed-smart-ai-tool-amid-extraordinary-outage-101794606665269.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Former US Department of Transportation Inspector General Mary Schiavo has questioned whether the Federal Aviation Administration's newly deployed SMART AI tool could be connected to a nationwide flight disruption that forced all flights in the United States to remain grounded. Schiavo pointed out that the FAA had announced plans to begin using SMART on the same day the ground stop was issued and suggested that difficulties could have emerged from running the new software alongside the FAA's existing systems. The FAA had not announced any connection between the SMART rollout and the communications failure.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Techmeme",
        "title": "The FAA announced on November 10 that it has expanded the use of SMART, an AI tool for advising air traffic controllers to manage congestion, across the US (Jeremy Hsu/Ars Technica)",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/13/the-faa-announced-on-november-10-that-it-has-expanded-the-use-of",
        "published": "2026-11-13T22:10:02.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}