The Case for Artificial Stupidity

There's an old joke among pilots. Automation has made flying so safe and so boring that the biggest risk is now the pilot forgetting how to fly. The joke stopped being funny a while ago. In 2009, the crew of Air France Flight 447 faced a situation the autopilot couldn't handle - iced-over speed sensors, contradictory readings, the Atlantic Ocean at night. The system handed control back to the humans. The humans, who had spent years monitoring a machine that did their job for them, didn't know what to do. Everyone on board died. This is not an AI problem.