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Air traffic control is reputed as one of the five most stressful professions there is. Addressing the mental workload of controllers is therefore an important area of SESAR research and innovation and one that can be addressed using artificial intelligence. The project aims to develop a digital assistant capable of predicting future traffic, and assessing controllers’ stress levels and attention span, and whether they would be capable of handling the anticipated workload. The assistant would decide how to act, following an adaptation strategy: it may, for instance, increase the level of automation, enable additional AI-based tools, or request changes to the airspace (sector splitting).