Birdstrike, AI and human performance: a sharper approach to aviation safety

Aviation is one of the few industries where the cost of an error is measured in lives, and where decades of hard-won process exist precisely because of it. It's also an industry where the volume of data — weather, movements, wildlife, human factors — has outgrown what any individual can hold in their head.

Prediction is the easy part to oversell

AI is good at finding patterns in that data: where and when birdstrike risk spikes, which conditions compound, where attention should go next. But a prediction is only useful if it reaches the right person, in the right form, at the right moment — and if they trust it enough to act.

Human performance is the multiplier

That's why our work in this space is a joint venture with human-performance specialists, not a pure-technology play. The platform's job isn't to make the decision — it's to give skilled people a clearer picture so their judgement is sharper and earlier. Machine scale, human judgement.

The goal isn't to remove the human from the loop. It's to make the human in the loop better-informed.

It's a theme we'll be speaking to as keynote presenters at the Cleveland Aviation Safety & Birdstrike Conference in August 2026 — and one that applies well beyond aviation to any high-stakes environment.