Washington, Sept. 22 -- Rep. Don Beyer issued the following press release:
Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA), who serves as co-Chair of the bipartisan Congressional Artificial Intelligence (AI) Caucus and represents a Northern Virginia district that includes Ronald Reagan National Airport (DCA) in the U.S. House, issued the following statement today on the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) deployment of an AI Strategic Management of Airspace Routing Trajectories ("SMART") system to manage flights at Washington area airports including DCA:
"The FAA should not use my constituents as guinea pigs for an unproven AI air traffic control system. The safety of the 24 million people traveling through DCA each year must be the top priority. Residents of ...