Scam Altman et al.'s fear mongering has backfired on them big time.
But we're not talking about LLMs here, even though (I guess) the underlying model is the same (ANN).
AI at this stage is not going to replace human ATCs. But it can help overworked controllers to expand their mental "bandwidth", which in the case of managing a tad under 100k commercial flights per day in the US means improved safety.
I get many of the risks of AI (mostly associated with the developers themselves), I'm bearish on the economics (reminds me of telecom overbuild), but the technology is useful and the applications are myriad.
Some folks talk about AI reminds me of what the townsfolk might have said the first time someone rode a bike through town.
It's kinda funny to see the Brits are so incensed.
It wasn't so long ago their government was strapping people to the nasty end of a cannon as their preferred execution.
Mind you, we wrote the Constitution to exclude such barbarianism. Mostly.