# Are we ready to fully automate air traffic control

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [January 31, 2025, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-we-ready-to-fully-automate-air-traffic-control/1013685 "2025-01-31T17:27:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2025, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-we-ready-to-fully-automate-air-traffic-control/1013685/11 "2025-02-01T18:53:07Z")

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I am all in favour of automating the traffic control for the private planes of the billionaire owners of AI and tech firms and, if you twist my arm, AirForce One and AirForce Two too. I know there may be some collateral damage when they crash into other jets, but sacrifices must be made for the greater good of humankind.  
ETA: And a link to The Pit, brand new thread, right on topic:

> [@What Should Be Done About Air Safety? Trump: Reduce the Number Air Traffic Controllers](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-be-done-about-air-safety-trump-reduce-the-number-air-traffic-controllers/1013726):
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> Air traffic controllers were emailed by the Trump administration urging them to quit their jobs and take mass “buyouts” just 24 hours after the D.C. plane crash. And I had been thinking this would be a category excluded from the government’s efforts to cut government jobs. Some of us are just too naive.

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