We pilots find that an aberration, in that we were born in a time where copilots were the norm, flight engineers were the norm.
The industry will always twist in their favor, with the best cost-effective solution: Eliminate the human factor completely.
There will be new type of accidents which will be still a human factor but this time we talk about programmers mistakes, inability to predict situations by software analysts, etc.
The question is if the machine would offer some overriding procedure and let's say 2 human inputs will be required (sort of famous 2 keys needed to arm nuclear missiles at a submarine).