Embraer Unveils Concept for Fully Autonomous AI-Piloted Passenger Jet

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Aerospace giant Embraer, in partnership with Bombardier, has unveiled plans for a fully autonomous passenger jet piloted by AI, eliminating the need for a human pilot or cockpit. While still conceptual, the design raises future safety concerns about AI-controlled commercial flights, representing a potential AI hazard if deployed.[AI generated]

Why's our monitor labelling this an incident or hazard?

The event involves an AI system concept (fully autonomous aircraft) that could plausibly lead to harm in the future, such as injury to passengers or disruption of aviation infrastructure, but the plane is still at the conceptual stage with no deployment or malfunction reported. Therefore, it qualifies as an AI Hazard due to the credible risk posed by the intended use of AI in autonomous passenger flight, but not an AI Incident since no harm has occurred.[AI generated]
AI principles
SafetyRobustness & digital securityAccountabilityTransparency & explainabilityDemocracy & human autonomyHuman wellbeing
Industries
Mobility and autonomous vehiclesRobots, sensors, and IT hardware
Affected stakeholders
ConsumersGeneral public
Harm types
Physical (death)Physical (injury)Economic/PropertyReputationalPublic interest
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Other
AI system task:
Recognition/object detectionEvent/anomaly detectionForecasting/predictionGoal-driven organisationReasoning with knowledge structures/planning

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