[curious7]

Exactly. Aotomation and AI are great if humans are in the loop sanity checking it and overseeing it - increases human productivity while maintaining human accountability. So they can’t say, ‘Oh, the Ai made a mistake’, aka ‘’It was a computer glitch’, as was used previously.

[Alberta's Child]

Good point, but the U.S. government took the exact opposite position when it imposed the positive train control (PTC) mandate back in the early 2010s. That mandate cost the railroad industry (including public transit agencies) a staggering $14 billion to implement, with almost no tangible safety benefit at all.

In that fiasco, the federal government basically said: “Human oversight and accountability isn’t good enough; we have to automate it.”

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Exactly. Humans augmented with help from machines has always been good.

Anyone who has ever had a job inspecting widgets knows that it can be mind numbing work. You lose your sharpness pretty fast. Machines can triage the problem, and any anomaly can be handed over to a human to verify.