[kyleplum]

This is actually a more apt analogy than I think you intended.

We do have planes that can fly similarly to birds, however unlike birds, those planes do not fly on their own accord. Even when considering auto-pilot, a human has to initiate the process. Seems to me that AI is not all that different.

[speeder]

Yet certain Boeing planes were convinced their pilots were wrong, and happily smashed themselves into the ground killing a lot of people.

[pdntspa]

Because they either received bad inputs that defeated failsafes, or the pilot was not properly aware that handling characteristics had changed that and doing things the old way would put the plane into a bad state.

[TeMPOraL]

That's because planes aren't self-sufficient. They exist to make us money, which we then use to feed and service them. Flying around on their own does not make us money. If it did, they would be doing it.