As a gray-haired software engineer, I am both impressed by the progress of technology in my lifetime, but also incredulous how casually we dependent on complexity that most of us don’t understand. I can call my son in Europe with sound quality as good as a local call (but the call drops without warning). My e-assist bicycle exchanges data with my phone better than Apollo and Houston (but flashed red because it needed a firmware update). In both cases, failure modes have minor consequences. I cannot fathom software that adequately handles all the failure modes of a single-pilot, or left-seat-plus-remote-seat airliner.
I can see why check-writers push for automation and business is infatuated with AI. I believe them to be perilously slippery slopes.