Here's Why Technology, Artificial Intelligence Aren't Good Answers For The Growing Pilot Shortage

In each case it is a near-certainty that their quick thinking, powered by the uniquely human ability to combine high levels of training and proficiency with creativity at critical moments, saved lives. Specifically a total of 875 lives were saved by these airmen and their crew mates in these six headline-grabbing incidents. It also is a near-certainty that no technology available today, and none that is likely to be available for use in the next generation or two of commercial aircraft (which will be in service at least through the middle of this century) is or will be capable of the kind of rapid-fire, mentally elastic and way outside-the-box thinking that each of these pilots demonstrated. Significant technical, regulatory, spectrum/bandwidth, artificial intelligence, financial and insurance barriers are but the most obvious challenges.