I don't think that captures what I'm thinking about, which is more skills atrophy ("Children of the Magenta") problem than a conflict of interest problem.
https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/sp/2015/05/msp2015050...
> William Langewiesche's article analyzing the June 2009 crash of Air France flight 447 comes to this conclusion: “We are locked into a spiral in which poor human performance begets automation, which worsens human performance, which begets increasing automation” (www.vanityfair.com/news/business/2014/10/air-france-flight-447-crash).
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> Langewiesche's rewording of these laws is that “the effect of automation is to reduce the cockpit workload when the workload is low and to increase it when the workload is high” and that “once you put pilots on automation, their manual abilities degrade and their flight-path awareness is dulled: flying becomes a monitoring task, an abstraction on a screen, a mind-numbing wait for the next hotel.”