Wednesday, October 2, 2019

Manual Override Autocrash


We are already at their service.
We are already neglecting Asimov's Laws.
We don't see it yet because it's automatic updates and automatic screen rotation. When it's automatic plane-flying, or rather automatic plane-crashing, some might see it. Once it's automatically running your entire life, with no consideration to you the end user as an individual, with no consideration to a manual override, it will be too endemic, too pervasive, and too powerful for you to do anything.

The pilot's manual choices should always override software.
-random reddit comment by NotYouDude

Notes:
Wiki link

Flawed analysis, failed oversight: How Boeing, FAA certified the suspect 737 MAX flight control system
Seattle Times. Mar 17, 2019.

Boeing 'misjudged 737 Max pilot reactions'
Sep 2019, BBC News

"...which was designed to make the aircraft easier to fly."

Post Script:
And you can't make this shit up -- the automated security system in your house automatically called the cops on the automated floor cleaner in the house. If only they talked to each other first...

Deputies surround burglar in Oregon home, find out suspect is Roomba trapped in bathroom
April 2019, Local News

Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics

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