Did you see the story about how Google's Waymo robot cars in San Francisco have been intentionally programmed to break the law by driving through occupied crosswalks.
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Mastodon Migrationreplied to Mastodon Migration last edited by
Let's toss out another hypothetical.
Somehow a citation is issued to a Waymo robot car that breaks the law by driving through an occupied crosswalk.
Who pays ticket?
Who gets the points on their license?
Who has to go to traffic school?
The cost of the ticket is nothing to the trillion dollar company, and if no one suffers any personal consequence, there is no effective deterrence at all.
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Alberto Cotticareplied to Mastodon Migration last edited by
@mastodonmigration @susankayequinn AI as accountability sink, as per @pluralistic .
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Mastodon Migrationreplied to Alberto Cottica last edited by
@alberto_cottica @susankayequinn @pluralistic
Exactly. It is a personal liability shield.
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@mastodonmigration @susankayequinn Perhaps a case could be made that the "points" are for all of the autonomous vehicles of an operator, ie. corporation. And why not expand it to cover all that use the same technology. So then they actually need to do well.
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@thematic @mastodonmigration @susankayequinn
I can see an argument that says all cars using the same software are operating under the same driver's license and putting points against it just like any human's. (I bet they get revoked in a day.) -
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Adrianna Tanreplied to Mastodon Migration last edited by [email protected]
@mastodonmigration SFPD doesn’t even do this for human drivers who do this, which is sadly 100% of the time they are also in the crosswalk. There is almost no traffic enforcement and we have a huge amount of pedestrian fatalities
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Robots, billionaires and corporations are better than the rest of us.
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At least so far as the laws of the nation don't apply to them.
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@mastodonmigration @susankayequinn So if somebody programs dog robots to chase down and destroy unoccupied robot taxis will there be “personal accountability?”
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To insure you are legally free and clear probably a good idea to have an AI program the dog robots.
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@mastodonmigration @susankayequinn To inject an unwelcome bit of seriousness to this particular fork of the discussion, I doubt they’ll find assigning responsibility anywhere near as difficult when their corporate masters aren’t at fault.
Much like Shkreli and Enron when the victims are consumers or old grannies vs when they are caught defrauding the investor class.
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You are right of course. Existing product liability, motor vehicle and property crime laws probably cover things quite nicely. They just don't apply to the oligarchs or their corporations.
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