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Precisely. All of these things can fail, with or without human involvement, and humans can fail just as easily. Whilst these are all absolutely horrible contraptions that shouldn't be necessary in relative modernity, it's important to look at stats, but also to "sanity-check" an authorization with concepts like a two-man rule.

Whilst AI may indeed be superior to human beings in x areas now or in the future, human ethics, intuition et al are also very important and likely to never be replaced. In the same breath, fuckups will always happen by the very nature of every system and every human being imperfect.




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