Sorry for so many comments here, but I came back to the article and was simply astonished.

The term "cybernetics," coined in the 1940s, refers to systems that use feedback from the real world to correct their internal model.

How could a modern engineering team create a "Flight Warning Computer" that could continuously monitor the fuel level, but never actually used that number to compare against the fuel plan, or even a "sanity check" like "fuel level decreased more than possible in normal operation, sustained for 10 seconds"?

When the pilots suspected computer error, they were absolutely right.

The error was that the computer did not use basic information it already had to easily detect and report a critical, rare but certainly not non-existent problem.