Experience Necessary. The Irony of Building a Skilled Team in the Age of AI
The Irony of Building a Skilled Team in the Age of AI.We’re giving people’s formative years over to AI. The autopilot had been doing the work, as it almost always does, and when a set of iced-over sensors briefly fed it bad airspeed data, it did the sensible thing and handed control back to the humans. The pilots in the seats had spent years supervising a machine that flew better than they did, and somewhere in those years, their flying skills had quietly atrophied.
- ▪The Irony of Building a Skilled Team in the Age of AI.We’re giving people’s formative years over to AI.
- ▪The autopilot had been doing the work, as it almost always does, and when a set of iced-over sensors briefly fed it bad airspeed data, it did the sensible thing and handed control back to the humans.
- ▪The pilots in the seats had spent years supervising a machine that flew better than they did, and somewhere in those years, their flying skills had quietly atrophied.
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| Publication time | Tue, 15 Sep 2026 14:05:13 +0000 |
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Experience Necessary. The Irony of Building a Skilled Team in the Age of AI.We’re giving people’s formative years over to AI. The better the machine gets, the faster we starve ourselves of the wisdom we need to oversee AI.Ben VershJul 07, 20261441733ShareOn June 1, 2009, Air France flight 447 fell out of the sky over the middle of the Atlantic with three trained pilots in the cockpit and nothing mechanically wrong with the start-of-the-art Airbus A330 aircraft. The autopilot had been doing the work, as it almost always does, and when a set of iced-over sensors briefly fed it bad airspeed data, it did the sensible thing and handed control back to the humans. That was the moment everything came apart.
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