[rwmj]

Later they'll replace them with minimum wage safety pilots.

[DoesntMatter22]

What a silly statement to make. They'll just be replaced with AI. This is literally the plot of the Terminator

[rwmj]

What The Terminator got wrong is each robot needs a human to take the legal blame when it goes wrong.

[tim333]

First low wage humans then AI only. Think Waymo.

[rgblambda]

Or outsource to a pilot procurement company in China.

There is precedent after all: https://www.propublica.org/article/microsoft-tech-support-go...

[throwaway2037]

I doubt it. Ask yourself: Why does the RQ-4 Global Hawk or MQ-9 Reaper require so much training to operate? The operators are well-paid, highly skilled officers.

[rwmj]

It's a joke about human "safety drivers" acting as legal crumple zones for self-driving cars.

[tim333]

Those aren't really AI controlled. It's just remote control for regular jet aircraft.