Panic has erupted within the cockpit of AirFrance Flight 447. The pilots are satisfied they’ve misplaced management of the airplane. It’s lurching violently. Then, it begins plummeting from the sky at breakneck pace, careening in direction of disaster. The pilots are certain they’re done-for.
Solely, they haven’t misplaced management of the plane in any respect: one easy manoeuvre may keep away from catastrophe…
Within the age of Synthetic Intelligence, we frequently examine people and computer systems, asking ourselves which is “higher”. However is that this even the proper query? The case of AirFrance Flight 447 suggests it isn’t – and that the implications of asking the fallacious query are disastrous.
Additional studying
Jeff Smart, “What Actually Occurred Aboard Air France 447,” Standard Mechanics, December 6, 2011
William Langewiesche, “The Human Issue” Vainness Honest, October 2014
“Kids of the Magenta,” 99% Invisible podcast, June 23, 2015
Nick Oliver, Thomas Calvard, Kristina Potočnik (2017) Cognition, Know-how, and Organizational Limits: Classes from the Air France 447 Catastrophe. Group Science 28(4):729-743
Cockpit Transcripts in French and English
Fabrizio Dell’Aqua Falling Asleep On the Wheel – Working Paper
Luchins, A. S. (1942). Mechanization in downside fixing: The impact of Einstellung. Psychological Monographs, 54(6),
You Are Not So Sensible Episode 281 – on AI and Brainstorming
James Purpose Human Error