Decades of automation research: autonomous systems always need human oversight
JessicaHullman · x · 2026-09-21
Thomas Dietterich draws on decades of automation research: autonomous systems require continual monitoring and human oversight, because system designers never succeed in anticipating all the ways a system can fail.
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