> It's tempting to take it as an autopilot but the results are much better if you treat it as a copilot.
As the son of a pilot, this sentence is really funny to me. A real-world pilot would switch the places of 'copilot' and 'autopilot' in your metaphor-- the autopilot maintains course on a given vector but isn't the same thing as a human being in command of the vehicle for exactly the reasons you refer to.
It's frightening when i think of that Boeing & Airbus are trying to replace the human copilot with AI / computer systems so that in future only one human pilot will command a passenger jet.
As the son of a pilot, this sentence is really funny to me. A real-world pilot would switch the places of 'copilot' and 'autopilot' in your metaphor-- the autopilot maintains course on a given vector but isn't the same thing as a human being in command of the vehicle for exactly the reasons you refer to.