Vision
- The CAA enables the seamless integration of AI into the aviation ecosystem and its own businesses processes, fostering innovation, ensuring utmost safety and security, and propelling the industry safely towards unparalleled efficiency and reliability.
Purpose
- To provide foresight and clarity on the CAA’s regulatory intent relating to the safe and secure use of AI in aviation across all our responsibilities.
- To enable innovation using AI technologies within the sector and throughout the CAA.
Strategy
With a dual focus on enabling the deployment of Artificial Intelligence (AI) within the aviation sector and utilising it as a regulatory and business tool, this initiative aims to enable the sector to elevate safety measures, enhance operational efficiency, and foster innovation.
The aviation industry continues to embrace the transformative power of AI. It already enhances safety and efficiency through predictive maintenance, aiding air traffic management, and refining pilot training with advanced insights and simulations. But the future of AI will usher in a new era in aviation.
September 2024 Update:
The CAA’s Strategy for AI is in development and we expect to publish it in Autumn 2024, following CAA Board approval and confirmation of funding required that will set the scope and extent of delivery.
This autumn you can also expect to see updates on our engagements with the sector, new versions of our AI Framework documents, and next steps on delivery of the AI Portfolio.
Survey
We previously created a survey to gather insights on how we regulate AI. We are grateful for all of the responses received and your support in helping us to create a strategy for the safe and secure use of AI in aviation. The survey closed on Friday 29 March 2024, we have now published our summary of responses.
For more information or for any queries you have on our work on AI please contact StrategyforAI@caa.
Regulating AI in the aviation sector
AI has the potential to bring about substantial safety, security, environmental and efficiency gains for the sector. But this also comes with known and unknown risks that we must work with the sector to identify and mitigate.
We are already seeing applications of AI in some of the proposals that reach our Innovation Advisory Services team in the CAA, and even within applications received by our regulatory approval teams.
The forthcoming Strategy for AI will outline our approach to responding to this emerging challenge, and provide the foundations for the CAA’s activity in this area into the future.
Using AI in the CAA
AI can support us in carrying out our regulatory duties. The power of AI to rapidly process and analyse large volumes of data presents us with an opportunity we should not ignore. We are just scratching the surface of the potential benefits, and how we can improve our services to the aviation sector by using AI.
As with any other organisation, the power that AI brings to help colleagues on a day-to-day basis as a business tool is also transformative. Whether it’s helping to draft a new CAA publication, create a financial report, or produce meeting notes, AI tools will soon become a natural and essential part of our working lives.
But we must ensure that AI is used and integrated in the CAA safely. Our Strategy for AI will also describe how we intend to embrace the power of AI while maintaining a CAA that meets the high standards that we uphold.
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