An alarm was alternating between a chirruping trill and an automated voice: “STALL STALL STALL.” His junior co-pilots were at the controls. But, paradoxically, there is a risk to building a plane that protects pilots so assiduously from even the tiniest error. A couple of times, Bonin did push the nose of the aircraft down a little and the stall warning started up again STALL STALL STALL – which no doubt confused him further. Increasingly, computers are managing these databases, with no need for humans to get involved or even to understand what is happening. When humans are asked to babysit computers, for example, in the operation of drones, the computers themselves should be programmed to serve up occasional brief diversions.

Source: The Guardian October 11, 2016 04:52 UTC