Simon Wells is an academic researching Argumentation Theory, Automated Reasoning, Intelligent Agents (IA) and MultiAgent Systems (MAS) all approached through a ludic lens.
He is particularly interested in how these tools can be usefully applied to critical literacy, security, gamification, and complex systems.
TwitterIain mentioned a graphic example of the problems that we can face when we delegate control to machines. In this example, so the story goes, the systems of the fully-automated Airbus A380 are trying to land the aeroplane whilst the (human) pilot is trying to abort the landing. The status quo results in something quite spectacular when the plane neither climbs nor lands before reaching the trees:
"the current S-class Mercedes-Benz requires over 20 million lines of code alone and that the car contains nearly as many ECUs as the new Airbus A380"
