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you don't fly the plane, you tell the autopilot what flying should mean today.
means a control scheme where a human sets goals and monitors a lower-level automated system that actually executes the moment-to-moment actions.
from emerged from 1960s aerospace and nuclear-plant engineering, when operators shifted from manually steering machines to overseeing computers that steered them instead — the human became a manager, not a mechanic.
coined byengineer thomas sheridan, 1960s mit research
classic exampledrone pilots monitoring, not joysticking, every move
failure modehumans zone out when automation works too well
used innuclear plants, spacecraft, self-driving cars