Originally Posted by rickair7777

There is no such thing as AI, at least not the way the average person tosses the term around (HAL 2000).

There are programs which can execute complex decision making, assuming ALL of the factors are pre-defined in the code. The benefit of something like this is to replace low-skilled labor such as an IT help desk. That labor is reading from a script for the most part, not exercising creativity or judgement.

There are some programs which have the ability to learn but they learn from experience.

Software has no ability to utilize imagination or creativity to predict possible outcomes when confronted with an unknown or uncertain situation. This could be something like a UAL 232 event, but is much more common on a routine basis n the form of weather or in-flight delays.

In that scenario, best case, the software reverts to safe mode which would be an abort or divert. Not economical to do that on a regular basis.

Worst case, everybody dies (except the AI, which can restored from a backup copy).