AI recreates voices of deceased pilots

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) temporarily restricted access to its docket system after discovering that AI had been used to recreate the voices of pilots who died in a recent UPS plane crash. Although federal law prohibits cockpit audio recordings in public dockets, a spectrogram file from the voice recorder was available. This image data, combined with a public transcript, allowed individuals to use AI tools like Codex to generate approximations of the cockpit audio. The NTSB has since restored public access to most of its system, excluding 42 investigations like the UPS flight incident pending further review.