AI is being used to resurrect the voices of dead pilots
TechCrunch
The NTSB restricted public access to its investigation docket after AI was used to recreate the voices of deceased pilots from published spectrogram data.Summary
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) temporarily disabled access to its investigation docket after discovering that individuals used AI to reconstruct the voices of pilots killed in a UPS plane crash. Although the NTSB is legally prohibited from releasing cockpit audio recordings, it had included spectrograms—visual representations of sound—in public investigative files. Tech enthusiasts realized these spectrograms contained sufficient data to reverse-engineer the audio. By combining the spectrograms with official transcripts, unauthorized users employed AI tools to create realistic voice simulations, prompting the NTSB to restrict access to 42 active investigations to prevent further misuse.
(Source：TechCrunch)