Complacency can result from automation bias and is a high threat to effective mission performance.

Complacency can result from automation bias and is a high threat to effective mission performance.

• A. Sometimes
• B. Not related
• C. True
• D. False

Answer: (C)

Automation bias leads people to trust automated systems more than they should, which can cause complacency. When automation handles routine tasks well, operators may stop actively monitoring and rely on the system to catch everything. That drift in vigilance means they’re less prepared to notice and respond to anomalies or failures, so situational awareness suffers and intervention can be delayed. In UAS missions, this complacency can undermine mission performance because even small discrepancies or unexpected conditions require the human operator to intervene promptly. So the statement is true: complacency can result from automation bias, and it represents a significant, high-threat risk to effective mission performance. The other options don’t fit because the link between automation bias and complacency is real and the impact on performance is substantial, not merely occasional or unrelated.

Automation bias leads people to trust automated systems more than they should, which can cause complacency. When automation handles routine tasks well, operators may stop actively monitoring and rely on the system to catch everything. That drift in vigilance means they’re less prepared to notice and respond to anomalies or failures, so situational awareness suffers and intervention can be delayed. In UAS missions, this complacency can undermine mission performance because even small discrepancies or unexpected conditions require the human operator to intervene promptly. So the statement is true: complacency can result from automation bias, and it represents a significant, high-threat risk to effective mission performance. The other options don’t fit because the link between automation bias and complacency is real and the impact on performance is substantial, not merely occasional or unrelated.