The unpleasant concept of a thinking computer taking over when we’re the pilot in command has been wrestled in literature until it’s a cliché, but technology has reached the point where we may have to face it.
It’s been nearly five years since Garmin introduced the “wings level” button as part of the Perspective package on the Cirrus. It was trickle down from the military where one-push-equals-level-flight had already saved some very macho Top Gun-type fighter pilots. We don’t know how many saves that button should be credited with in the GA world, because there isn’t data on accidents that don’t happen.