Lisanne Bainbridge’s November 1983 paper analyzes industrial process control, with flight-deck examples. Automating routine work can remove the use and feedback through which operators acquire and maintain practical knowledge, yet leave them responsible for unusual failures. Experienced workers may lose proficiency; later workers may never acquire it. Bainbridge discussed hands-on work and simulator practice as responses, while noting that unknown faults cannot be simulated exhaustively. This is a historical mechanism analysis with cited studies, not a modern AI experiment. Whether the same mechanism weakens scientists’ ability to scrutinize and redirect unfamiliar AI-generated research is a question, not a finding of this paper.