And blame the programmers when things go south
We shouldn’t automate anything as long as the general public, or at least the people in charge don’t understand how tech works and “algorithms”
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We shouldn’t automate anything as long as the general public, or at least the people in charge don’t understand how tech works and “algorithms”
This turns upside down the standard role of automation in control systems. E.g. the humans sets the temperature on the thermostat controller, or the pilot sets the parameters on the autopilot, but the plane is still under control of the pilot. Automated controllers don’t have goals that aren’t set by controllers above them in the hierarchy. In my opinion it’s definitionally impossible for automation to be the chief e…