AI is being used to resurrect the voices of dead pilots
AI technology has been utilized to recreate the voices of deceased pilots from a UPS plane crash. The National Transportation Safety Board temporarily restricted access to its docket system after discovering that these AI-generated voices were circulating online. Public access has since been restored, but the investigation related to Flight 2976 remains restricted until further review.
- ▪The NTSB found that voices of pilots from a UPS plane crash were recreated using AI and shared online.
- ▪Federal law prohibits the inclusion of cockpit audio recordings in the NTSB's public docket system.
- ▪AI tools were used to approximate the cockpit voice recorder audio from the available spectrogram and transcript.
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In Brief Posted: 4:03 PM PDT · May 22, 2026 Image Credits:Stephen Cohen / Getty Images Kirsten Korosec AI is being used to resurrect the voices of dead pilots In the latest sign of these AI-heavy times, the National Transportation Safety Board temporarily removed access to its docket system after discovering that voices of pilots who were killed in a UPS plane crash last year had been recreated using AI and were circulating on the internet. NTSB is prohibited by federal law from including cockpit audio recordings in its docket system, which otherwise contains troves of data on investigations and has historically been open to the public. But the accident docket for this flight included a spectrogram file of the voice recorder.
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