Reading the 2026 aviation AI landscape without getting ahead of it
FAA, EASA, EUROCAE, and SAE publications show active work, but proposals, draft standards, and research programs are not interchangeable with settled certification policy.
Research notes
Notes on evidence, standards, and model change
Source-grounded writing on official guidance, open research questions, and the evidence habits that matter when learned systems enter safety-critical programs. Confidential implementation details stay out of this record.
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Unknown is a decision state, not an inconvenient blank
In high-assurance research, timeout, unsupported, and inconclusive outcomes should remain visible. Turning them into an implied pass makes the evidence easier to read and harder to trust.
When the model changes, what happens to the assurance case?
A model update can make part of an existing evidence record stale. The responsible question is not whether change can be waved through, but how its assurance impact can be understood without overstating the result.