On a much more serious level, there has been growing concern in aviation about excessive trust placed in automated systems, often without full comprehension of what these systems are actually doing. The phrase ‘the children of magenta’ has been applied to pilots who follow with excessive reverence the magenta line on their navigation displays.
There is also more than a little of this in business and in other kinds of organizations; I fully expect that the current vogue for ‘big data’ will lead to even more.
June 28th, 2019 at 10:00AM
On a much more serious level, there has been growing concern in aviation about excessive trust placed in automated systems, often without full comprehension of what these systems are actually doing. The phrase ‘the children of magenta’ has been applied to pilots who follow with excessive reverence the magenta line on their navigation displays.
There is also more than a little of this in business and in other kinds of organizations; I fully expect that the current vogue for ‘big data’ will lead to even more.
https://chicagoboyz.net/archives/57060.html
June 28th, 2019 at 10:01AM
I see that the link to the classic video by an American Airlines pilot, ‘The Children of Magenta’, is broken: here’s a link that actually works:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4GqKbGgbfY
June 28th, 2019 at 3:13PM
David: Many thanks. I watched the entire video. Of course it’s scary, but very informative.
June 28th, 2019 at 9:26PM
A truly chilling accident involving excessive reverence for automation occurred in the DC area in 1996. Described in my post Blood on the Tracks:
https://chicagoboyz.net/archives/43911.html
Hopefully, Metro has learned the right lessons from this and other accidents…
June 28th, 2019 at 10:23PM
Google sends people to mud pits. Computer dating sent me to train wrecks…