Robots killing people are much scarier than humans killing people.
Unfeeling monsters taking lives are much more frightening because we have zero mental models for what motivates them and therefore no way to predict or protect ourselves from them when we encounter them. Statistics don’t matter.
Psychopaths are scarier than normal people even when they have the same outcomes.
We’re just desensitised to motor vehicle accidents. Self driving car accidents are still novel. A million people killed worldwide per year in motor vehicle accidents is just a statistic.
Robots killing people are much scarier than humans killing people.
Unfeeling monsters taking lives are much more frightening because we have zero mental models for what motivates them and therefore no way to predict or protect ourselves from them when we encounter them. Statistics don’t matter.
Psychopaths are scarier than normal people even when they have the same outcomes.