Goldstein: LLMs will first bridge pilot-to-machine communications in aviation autonomy
Adam Goldstein · The Future of Everything: What CEOs of Circle, CrowdStrike & More See Coming in 2026 · Jan 25, 2026 · at 1:30:13
Adam Goldstein, CEO of Archer Aviation, discusses how natural language AI models will serve as an intermediate step for integrating autonomous aircraft into existing manual air traffic control infrastructure.
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“With the advancements of LLMs, it actually allows this interesting period of time where you can now communicate with a machine in a way you couldn't really before, and so there's this probably middle ground that happens where there's pilots talking to machines, machines talking to pilots, and so you can start to implement different systems, and that's where I think it goes first, actually.”
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