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Lessons from aviation and nuclear power show how to preserve human skills
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Richard Mitchell is a systems engineer and the founder and CEO of AuraSpark Technologies.
Key facts
- A Harvard University working paper covering some 65 million workers at more than 280,000 U.S. firms found that after companies adopted generative AI, junior employment fell roughly 9 percent
- In 2017 the FAA issued Safety Alert for Operators 17007, “ Manual Flight Operations Proficiency, ” declaring that “manual flight is the foundation upon which other technical flying skills are built
- The canonical example is Air France flight 447, which fell into the Atlantic in 2009
- Richard Mitchell is a systems engineer and the founder and CEO of AuraSpark Technologies
Summary
Lessons from aviation and nuclear power show how to preserve human skills. A little over a decade ago, the reporter led the controls design for a first-of-its-kind full digital-control system for a U.S. nuclear plant. The team were solving a specific problem. An operator who only ever supervises automation slowly stops being an operator. It’s always the worst day, because automation only quits when it’s confused or in trouble. That plant, as it happened, was never built.