AI Efficiency Could Cost Us the Next Generation of Experts

This is a very though-provoking that applies much wider than just AI. In fact, its origins go back to long before AI was even around. It is applicable to whenever automation is involved with humans. The problem with humans is they get lazy, and they lose muscle memory over time, and it is even worse if they never gained the muscle memory in the first place. Examples given are a nuclear power station where, despite the possibility of fully automated processes, humans are deliberately kept in the loop to perform approval and manual processes. This was to keep them current and to practice what they need to do. The other example was the Air France flight 447 accident which could have been prevented if the humans in the cockpit were not so accustomed to flying on autopilot for years, and they could have still assessed what went wrong using their manual flight skills. It really brings to the foreground some of the inherent issues we have with humans, and how these can manifest themselves…