People Used AI To Recreate The Voices Of Pilots Killed In A Plane Crash

AI users reconstructed cockpit voice audio from a spectrogram and transcript in public NTSB files tied to the UPS Flight 2976 crash.

The recreated voices came from investigation materials that are supposed to protect sensitive cockpit recorder audio.

After the issue surfaced, the NTSB temporarily took its accident docket system offline to review the problem.

The case highlights how public records can be combined with AI to expose private aviation audio and create privacy and safety risks.