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Old 11th June 2026 | 20:33
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CayleysCoachman
 
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AI is in its dangerous infancy. It does some exquisitely-defined things brilliantly well (I use some AI features in Adobe Lightroom very regularly and they have transformed my workflow). It does other things very badly indeed. It threatens, according to experts, a ‘non-zero probability of human extinction’, but no-one has quantified that. Senior military friends of mine (of various star ranks) are petrified at the deployment of autonomous AI-driven weapons.

And then some people are intoxicated by it, and trying to use it for totally inappropriate tasks. A pilot looking something up is not a lawyer seeking arcane case law on which to build an argument (and evidence is that if he tries to use AI, it likely will hallucinate garbage).

A professional pilot should not need more than a decent indexing system and perhaps a text search to find what’s needed. I think the gathered audience here believe you’ve got that wrong, and we dont like it, because it strikes at the essence of being an aviator.
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