I'm all for a degree of automation if it prevents an Aeroflot pilot from doing a "Crazy Ivan" into MRV as happened to me recently.
I would trust automation a lot more if things like Vista operating system worked properly. Computers are still at the inherently stupid phase at the moment in that they cannot learn. They cannot handle anything outside of the parameters set. How the parameters get set is in the hands of humans. It is more than conceivable that operational parameters will be set by humans who have a different motive than the safe operation of the aircraft. In short, a bean counter decides the limits of such things as fuel load for a particular flight plan. All well and good but something non-automated happens, such as bad weather, which no computer has ever managed to predict, then it goes pear shaped.
Also, is every aircraft in the world going to be automated at the same time with standard equipment?