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Technology may be advancing - but it’s making us more stupid
‘Deskilling’ in the face of cognitive automation is a problem that is too easily ignored
“There is some reason to believe that flight-deck automation may have already passed its optimum point,” the doyen of aviation safety design, NASA scientist Earl Weiner warned as long ago as 1980. Air France Flight 447 crashed into the Atlantic Ocean in 2009, killing more than a dozen passengers Credit: Getty Images/Forca Aerea Brasileira The airliner was functioning perfectly by the time it hit the water, and the last words from the cockpit captured by the Black Box recorder were “It’s not true!”. Researchers at Microsoft and the University of Edinburgh have found there’s a time penalty to checking and rechecking AI output, which ate into “other productive tasks like writing code or running tests”.
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