A lot of pilots today tend to agree that replacing them is also a bad idea. When it comes to pilots, the years of experience to make decisions, outweighs the use of the computer. The computer is a brilliant piece of technology, it can do many computations in a very short amount of time. But if it hasn’t done a calculation or if that calculation is beyond its computational methods, then the pilot is definitely more reliable then the computer. Also it is noted that if the plane runs out of power, then the computer also goes with it. So having a human behind the controls is incredibly important in that standpoint as it shows that he can safely land the plan using the mechanical systems in the aircraft and analog avionics.
As the new dawn of electronics hits the market today, there is an overall lack of ethics to this new technology. If we look at LaChat’s AI and Ethics, then we can see that if perhaps an AI were made to specifically pilot an aircraft and given the option to be moral, then maybe it might be possible to replace the pilot. But I tend to slide towards Kant’s argument as Kant says “that a machine, however intelligent, which is without the capacity to value and to make moral choices cannot be considered an end in itself and, therefore, could not be the possessor of human rights.”. I believe that even though he was talking about Artificial Intelligences rights, it still falls into the category of being responsible of other human being’s lives. Thinking about computers replacing pilots is that if it were to follow the “Rules of Robotics” by Asimov, that when a robot must obey orders given it by humans, what would happen if that a human gave an order to a robot to say for instance land the plane and no one would be hurt, would it be capable of ignoring the command to protect the others? How would it know if the people were actually being harmed or not?
	Some experts believe that the way of the future is with technology, especially with aircraft. They predict that in just only 50 years, computers will replace pilots, even in commercial aircraft. That the technology will be advanced enough and that people will be trustful enough to their technology; that even the majority of mundane tasks will be mostly automated. There is also the millions of tasks the computer could handle such as changing altitude or reacting to wind changes in a microsecond. Computers also lack emotion, which even though important to ethical decision making, might be prove useful in the end. For example, imagine if we had a system of computers that were able to fly a plane and everyone was alright with the idea of having a computer flying them. Then we wouldn’t of ever had the issue with the Germanwings flight not too long ago, where apparently the crash was due to the mental instability of the pilot that was left alone in the cockpit.   Although these concepts seem agreeable, you could provide a basis that in Utilitarianism it states that the “Intrinsic good is a definition for the most pleasure/happiness for the most people”. So by using electronics instead of pilots, it could provide more relief to tasks that would seem too stressful. I believe that in 50 years, a lot of things that we find routine, will be automated, giving us much needed time to do other things. But the thing is that a lot of people enjoy flying, so by taking away this passion/hobby it would make it harder to convince that electronics are good for replacing pilots.
	I believe that in the next 50 or 100 years, computers might be at a point where it may be justifiable to replace humans with computers. Perhaps computers will replace humans when flying cargo or other non-human things. But with the state of electronics today, there is yet to be any implementation of such devices on airplanes as the liability of humans far outweighs the capabilities of what computers can do. I believe that when we start messing with electronics on the ground and have a strong basis which we know is reliable and trustworthy, then perhaps we will see this change in flight. But for now, let the people who still admire and cherish flying, fly for many years to come.