I don't think anyone is suggesting we should do that...but it's still a fun project to play around with?

I think we can trust them to not have human pilots. It is just that having human in loop is very useful in not that rare scenarios. Say airfield has too much wind or fog or another plane has crashed on all runways... Someone needs to make decision what to do next. Or when there is some system failure not thought about.

And well if they are there they might as well fly for practise.

And no. I would not allow LLM in to the loop of making any decision involving actual flying part.

> We just don't trust them enough to not have human pilots.

Much of the value of a human crew is as an implicit dogfooding warranty for the passengers. If it wasn't safe to fly, the pilots wouldn't risk it day after day.

To think of it, it'd be nice if they posted anonymized third-party psych evaluations of the cockpit crew on the wall by the restrooms. The cabin crew would probably appreciate that too.

It would be interesting to see if Claude can land and take off. Don't think the autopilot can do that yet.

> We just don't trust them enough to not have human pilots

never mind that most crashes are caused by humans, very rarely by technical issues going amok

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