Actually - everything that flies will be automated, soon.
Why risk human lives and make engineering restrict itself to protecting a temperature-sensitive, oxygen-requiring, g-limited squishy, space-using system when AI can do the job even better?
Actually - everything that flies will be automated, soon.
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OK, and next include all the passengers.
They can go to their virtual destination and vacation via Zoom.
Because AI may be learning its lessons based on wrong measures. An AI was taught to read satellite imagery to detect tanks. It did well on its training images, from Germany. In desert storm it was useless.
It learned to count leaves.
"I'm sorry Dave I'm afraid I can't do that"
G-rating (8.5-9.0) times a factor of 1.4 to 1.5 for fighter aircraft, gives the typical non-yield limit to avoid airframe damage. An AI system could fly the envelope margin of 12.5 G to 13 G for a winning advantage against a human with a lower G-tolerance. The airframe will fatigue more quickly if such maneuvers become commonplace. The aircraft would need be redesigned to truly utilize an increased G advantage.