> Because software developers have no governing body, no oaths of ethics and no spine someone will end up dead in a ditch from malfunctioning AI.
The conclusion and the premise are both true, but not the causality. On AI, the Overton window is mostly filled with people going "this could be very bad if we get it wrong".
Unfortunately, there's enough people who think "unless I do it first" (Musk, IMO) or "it can't possibly be harmful" (LeCun) that it will indeed kill more people than it already has.
The conclusion and the premise are both true, but not the causality. On AI, the Overton window is mostly filled with people going "this could be very bad if we get it wrong".
Unfortunately, there's enough people who think "unless I do it first" (Musk, IMO) or "it can't possibly be harmful" (LeCun) that it will indeed kill more people than it already has.
The number who are already (and literally) "dead in a ditch" is definitely above zero if you include all the things that used to be AI when I was a kid e.g. "route finding": https://www.cbsnews.com/news/google-sued-negligence-maps-dri...