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> However in the real world people don't always write bugless code and aren't always alert when driving. Therefore these AI assistants can still have a net positive result as long as they are better than the average performance of a human.

This is an extremely good analogy -- in both situations, the human will become lazy and stop paying attention (regardless of whether they're supposed to keep their hands on the wheel, literally or metaphorically), and it will be possible to have a net result worse than either human or AI acting alone.



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