AI Restores Voices of Dead Pilots from Spectrograms — NTSB Closes Access

Researchers used artificial intelligence to restore pilots' voices from spectrograms of aircraft black box recordings. The system fully recovered the final words of deceased pilots with remarkable accuracy and crystal-clear sound quality. The discovery alarmed the American aviation agency NTSB, which fears serious violations of privacy and dignity for families of the deceased. The agency temporarily closed access to its public crash database.