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Old 17th Oct 2019, 08:43
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FullWings
 
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Look at it this way: for a lot of commercial pilots, 95% of the job is dealing with the whole gamut of social, business, safety, engineering and random other issues that pop up before, during and after the flight. The actual controlling of the aeroplane is a sideshow which has been mostly automated for the last half-century but is seen by many without insight into the profession as where AI will take over.

I have no doubt that at some time in the future we will have general purpose AI capable of doing all the above at least as well as a human. By that point, that same AI could take over most other human endeavours, so the world may have changed somewhat in the interim.

To answer the OP, as others have pointed out, none of the commercial passenger airliners in production today and none of the planned ones AFAIK have a “no pilot option” available. This will take us 20-30 years on and after that who knows...?
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