Originally Posted by
HuggyU2
It does not matter.
At some point in the future when the technology will allow HAL to perform with demonstrated capabilities better than a human, there will be pilots that vehemently object to HAL taking over and will do all they can to prevent it.
Sounds like the early resistance to automatic landings, now we simply trust HAL to land 300 RVR all day long. If you were to try to explain the concept of an alert height vs decision altitude 50 years ago (the 737 was already flying, but I digress), you’d get some crazy looks. HAL is also able to fly the wind shear recovery on many planes. At this point we are still needed to monitor and potentially take over, but there will be a day when we’re not. It won’t be in our careers, but the day will come.