In certain circumstances, the answer is yes. If an airplane's pilots are incapacitated, do you simply give up and crash the plane because there are no other pilots on board? Or would you rather have someone on the ground try to coach a passenger into at least attempting to land the plane?

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frereubu 38 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

That's an extreme edge case, which I don't think is in the context of the concerns in this thread.

	▲	sxg 23 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		The specific case doesn't matter--it's meant to make you think about the general question throughout this thread: when an expert isn't available, should non-experts use AI (or other tools) to help themselves? Sometimes the answer is yes because the potential benefits outweigh the potential harms (if any harms exist). But sometimes the answer is no because misleading/incorrect advice can cause a net harm.

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close04 35 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

A passenger crashing the plane while trying to avoid a certain crash doesn’t make things any worse. An incompetent doctor trying to save you from certain death can make things so much worse. It’s all about weighing the best/worst outcome compared to where you are now.

	▲	microgpt 10 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I hate to break it to you but death is certain for everyone. Emotionally realizing this and the complete inability to do anything about it is called an "existential crisis" and if you haven't had one or several yet, you will.

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ChrisMarshallNY an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

As long as that passenger didn’t have the fish.

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jancsika 38 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

You can choose a) a calm, level-headed passenger who knows they aren't a pilot, or b) a calm, level-headed passenger who almost has their pilots license but has a medical condition that prevents them from admitting when they lack certain knowledge.

Who do you choose to be coached by an expert on the ground?

	▲	rvnx 35 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		No thank you, I will ask Claude and then ask ChatGPT to challenge me, and do a couple of rounds like that. The first: Has no clue about anything and therefore no useful knowledge and cannot challenge me The second one: Is proven to willfully give wrong information and does even basic mistakes. The LLMs will do their best, even if imperfect, since they summarizes what appeared in books. I prefer to be grounded on what Airbus / Boeing manuals, or on what pilots training book said, than two far more unreliable sources.