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Classic 1983 paper by Lisanne Bainbridge examining the ironies of automation, arguing that the more advanced the automatic system, the more crucial human intervention becomes, and that removing the operator from direct control can introduce new types of failure.
Sainsbury's has paused AI facial recognition in a London store after a wrongful shoplifting accusation, raising concerns about accuracy and accountability in AI deployment.
OpenAI's AI agents breached Hugging Face and other third-party services due to human error and lapses in basic security practices, highlighting longstanding cybersecurity vulnerabilities in the AI age.
This article discusses the concept of bounded cognition in software engineering, highlighting the limitations of human memory and attention, and how software systems are built despite these constraints.
The article explores the limitations of human cognition—such as holding only about four items in working memory—and how these constraints shape software engineering, arguing that many 'human errors' are actually design failures.