The more automated planes get, the less often a pilot gets to actually fly. Automation is more likely to fail in uncommon situations that an inexperienced pilot

The more automated planes get, the less often a pilot gets to actually fly. Automation is more likely to fail in uncommon situations that an inexperienced pilot cannot deal with anyway. Even if a pilot is not completely useless and we value a human life at infinity, at some point having a pilot on board is not worth it. If a pilot can save the plane in less than 1/<number of passengers and non-pilot crew> of situations that would have ended in a fatal crash without them, we lose more pilots than we save non-pilots. Also, it's possible that an autopilot can handle a situation but the pilot erroneously overrides it and crashes.