Viewpoint: Too clever by half
There is a sinister belief — held mainly by those who have something to sell — that AI can do pretty well anything and onboard manpower should be effectively demoted to machine watching. But there is a lot that algorithms cannot do yet, and in dynamic situations that require judgement and experience, human qualities remain valuable
The sales hype around AI in the shipping industry overlooks complaints from pilots about systems that have a mind of their own and, being digitally interlinked, cause alarm when they decide to intervene when they should not be doing so