There's a 1959 Asimov short story where a futuristic government overrelying on automation realizes they can replace expensive computers driving ships and missiles with humans to save on expenditures.
You laugh, but that was literally the strategy behind XCOR and Virgin Galactic picking non-automated, non-fly-by-wire guidance systems for their space vehicles. The regulatory overhead and avionics development costs of using uncrewed systems is far higher than for crewed systems with test pilots. Or at least, that was the argument in the late 90s and early 2000s.