[xmeyers]

Isn't that orthogonal to the previous statement? The ideal situation would be to have fly-by-wire and a single hands-off button instead of HAL saying "Sorry Dave, but I cannot do that".

Of course, commercial pilots would need to have an actual interest in flying manually. The Gimli glider pilot was an enthusiastic pilot outside professional aviation.

I don't know if such an interest is still possible with modern exploitative labor practices.

[femto113]

I’d go beyond an “off switch” and argue that any software that’s smart enough to turn itself on without being asked needs to turn itself off if it’s obvious that the pilot is fighting against it. It’s like a classic Bayesian probability problem where the chance of a false positive is high. The software has to take into account that the stall scenario it thinks is happening is rare, and that happening followed by a pilot yanking back on the stick is vanishingly rare, accept that it was probably wrong and undo its actions.