ACAS X is like the sweet spot for AI. We have a system now, TCAS II which is reliable but has a lot of false positives and has a big limitation: both aircraft

ACAS X is like the sweet spot for AI. We have a system now, TCAS II which is reliable but has a lot of false positives and has a big limitation: both aircraft need to have TCAS in order to detect and resolve a conflict. It's also an environment that is very simple to simulate and model mathematically compared to virtually anything else AI will ever be applied to. TCAS II will be around for a very long time, like two decades, while ACAS X is deployed. So the AI system will also have a backup that already works. This is really the perfect target for AI: clear backups, we just need some extra capabilities and warnings, easy to simulate, false positives are acceptable. That's basically unique. Even then nothing has been deployed yet. We're half a decade away or so at best.