I'm sure he was acting on a lot of intel in coming to this decision. Algos and AI have been known to go rogue. e.g. after the Air Sweden 294 crashed in 2016, investigators were able to determine that the Air Data Inertial Reference Unit, or ADIRU — a device that tells the plane how it’s moving through space — had begun to send erroneous signals. But they couldn’t figure out why.

Facebooks chatbots Bob and Alice had also invented their own language-a variation of english to communicate to each other. They had to be shut down.

It may not be a safer future if humans can't be in control or regain control.

Why do you automatically assume that he was acting out of intel and not a knee jerk reaction? What in his history made you think this? Algorithms are not new... AI is not new. What you consider going 'rogue' is technically known as a bug or a glitch. Something that works in a way other than how the manufacturer intended it to work in certain conditions. how many flights a day do these planes make?
So in 2017 airlines carried 4.1 BILLION passengers from and to 20,000 city pairs.
Number of KMs flown in 2017?
1. American Airlines (324 billion)
2. Delta Air Lines (316.3 billion)
3. United Airlines (311 billion)
4. Emirates Airline (289 billion)
5. Southwest Airlines (207.7 billion)
How many aircraft in the air at peaktime? 5000! These are the conditions. It's important that we stop being lazy and use blanket statements for things we cannot explain. This is what has gotten us here! it's ok to say you don't know why a certain phenomenon is occurring and you will investigate and it's also fine to say that even after investigations are done - you don't know why. Other people will come after you. But if you create an answer... AI going rogue... Algorithms messing us up - you create a mind block by an answer you cannot prove. When people used to die of diseases people assigned them explanations - demons, God's curse e.t.c. This did not help in curing the disease. only when people came up with scientific explanations WHY certain phenomenon took place - did we find solutions.

There was no training rolled out to the rest but I also read that the government shutdown May have delayed the rollout of the software.

MCAS was reengaged four times as pilots scrambled to right the plane, and investigators were looking into the possibility that the software might have reengaged without prompting from the pilots

Look at that vertical acceleration...I guess its the same way it nose dived

@Masukuma, there is something to be said about over reliance on technology that is becoming more and more common in many industries. I have no experience about the aviation industry but I am familiar with it in another industry.

Technology has inserted itself between experts and their tools in the name of making it easier for the expert but has inadvertently led to the unintended consequence of making expertise less relevant. I will give you an example.

In the medical industry it is possible for you to go to a high end hospital and find all the personnel who have the training to take care of a problem you may have, let us say a broken leg and yet find that they can't help you.

The doctor will be there and he will look at you and say that he needs an xray. However, the hospital systems are linked in such a way that he can only requisition the xray through the computer system. If for some reason there is a network problem so that he cannot enter the details in, he and the patient are stuck.

The Xray technician knows how to operate the Xray machine but not the software that runs it. The systems are designed to only accept to take an xray that has been requisitioned through the system.

Sometimes it is even more frustrating than that. The physical machines may be working perfectly well but the computer system that runs it is faulty and the only way to get it fixed is to call a guy in Bangalore India.

IT systems have become the middlemen in most industries. They are experts of the system not experts at solving real world problems yet they are a constant irritation to those trained to solve real world problems.

In the Medical example above before everything was linked every expert was also a lowtech expert of his tools. A doctor could get another pen to write his prescription if the one he was using was not working.... and even if he did not have a pen and paper he could walk with the patient down the hall to the xray room and tell the technician verbally what he wanted. The technician knew how to operate his xray machine and troubleshoot whatever problems it had there and then without having to go through a middleman computer systems expert.

This thing has become so pervasive so that the lines of expertise are becoming blurred. There are surgeons now who have become experts at doing operations but only using million dollar machines so that if he did not have the million dollar machine he would not be an expert at anything.

https://www.healthline.c...ion-or-ripoff-021215#11

I imagine fighter jets do that but passanger planes?

Yes... but patient care in such environments is MUCH better than the traditional doctor with a stethoscope and a pen. Sure - technology can be annoying sometime but lets face it People die less in these health facilities compared to the old way of doing things. the outcome is not 100% but it's better. It's like self driving cars - they are continually being improved. Those cars are way better statistically than human driven vehicles. of course you "feel" safer in human driven vehicle on the tarmac... well statistically that's the most unsafe place you can be. but there is no reasoning with feelings... feelings have been wired to keep us alive and they are just heuristics. Flying... not a human thing... our heuristics will fire off everytime we fly. I happened to fly from JKIA on the same day the Ethiopian Flight crashed... it wasn't easy... I normally don't care what type of plane I fly in but over that trip... my heuristics were firing! regardless of my knowledge of statistics

Yes... but patient care in such environments is MUCH better than the traditional doctor with a stethoscope and a pen. Sure - technology can be annoying sometime but lets face it People die less in these health facilities compared to the old way of doing things. the outcome is not 100% but it's better. It's like self driving cars - they are continually being improved. Those cars are way better statistically than human driven vehicles. of course you "feel" safer in human driven vehicle on the tarmac... well statistically that's the most unsafe place you can be. but there is no reasoning with feelings... feelings have been wired to keep us alive and they are just heuristics. Flying... not a human thing... our heuristics will fire off everytime we fly. I happened to fly from JKIA on the same day the Ethiopian Flight crashed... it wasn't easy... I normally don't care what type of plane I fly in but over that trip... my heuristics were firing! regardless of my knowledge of statistics