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automation complacency

automation complacency noun: overconfidence in an automated machine or process.

Noun

automation complacency (uncountable)

  1. Overconfidence in an automated machine or process.
    • Automation complacency has been documented in many high-risk situations, from battlefields to industrial control rooms to the bridges of ships and submarines.2014, Nicholas Carr, The Glass Cage […] , Random House, →ISBN

Questions about automation complacency

What does automation complacency mean?
Automation complacency means overconfidence in an automated machine or process.
What part of speech is automation complacency?
Automation complacency is a noun.

Words near automation complacency in the dictionary

  1. automaticness
  2. automatics
  3. automating
  4. automation
  5. automation bias
  6. automation complacency
  7. automations
  8. automatisation
  9. automatise
  10. automatised
  11. automatises

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