There is a huge difference between letting an AI cruise at 36,000 feet with no qualified pilots on board, and letting a computer handle 1 thing of the juggling act that is flying a plane while the pilot monitors the computer. The first one breaks down, it's hundreds dead. The second one breaks down, there's a chance for the schlubby humans on board to take control of the situation. What part of that is there not to understand?
I think you also fundamentally misunderstand what flying a plane is. It's not like driving a car, where you just operate the vehicle. As I said, anyone can hold the stick and maintain relatively level flight for 8 hours. You don't just sit there staring at a screen seeing if a computer goes "im broken pls help" in that time frame. You need to navigate, you need to communicate, you need to manage the crew and passengers, everything. I wish I could put you in the right seat for just 30 minutes and walk you through something as routine as a prelanding check or something, so you could appreciate that flying a plane is much more than holding the stick and moving it around.
You describe yourself that often its a matter of punching in the destination and watching so it doesn't fuck up
No, heading/altitude =/= "punching in the destination." As for experiencing automated flight, see above.
You may know a lot about piloting, but it certainly doesn't mean I have to defer to a clearly inferior understanding of proving a proposition.
Overusing a thesaurus doesn't make you right. Deliberately obscuring your argument is not how you "win" a discussion, which you seem to be so set on doing.
The fact you have to rely on 'I'm right because I fly planes' is frankly pathetic.
If this was a discussion on fine dining, and you were a 5 star chef, I'd put my hands up and say yes, you know more than me about fine dining. Because frankly I'll stuff anything in my face and unironically enjoy greasy takeaway pizza. We're all worker ants here part of this big colony we call humanity, and some of us specialize in certain fields. Mine happens to be highly related to this discussion. Are you seriously saying "Wow you're using your thousands of hours of real life experience related to the topic at hand as leverage in your argument. Sad!" as an argument? I feel like you've come obsessed with "winning" an internet argument to the point that you've blinded yourself from the facts here. I have first hand knowledge and experience of watching computers fly aircraft. I have seen the dumb shit they do. I've seen the very real limitations they have, like having no concept of collision avoidance at all. I've had very real scares of engines cutting out 1000 feet off the ground in prop craft, and even if that particular craft had a computer, what's it going to do to help in that situation? A self driving car crashes, some guy gets hurt, it's a local tragedy. A self flying plane crashes, hundreds die, it's international news and an entire industry gets it's revenue slashed and thousands lose their jobs as a result. I don't think you understand the sheer magnitudes of difference.