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Re:Winner-take-all effects in autonomous cars by JumpCrisscross on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @09:10PM (#15077724)
> the fact that these deaths will be at the hands of machines rather than people will outrage the public

I keep hearing, and used to assume, this. But observe public reaction to e.g. the Tesla autopilot accident: measured and muted.

Counterbalancing negative reactions to machines are generational shifts in our perception of technology. I haven't seen a study on this, but from memory, what was the last new (or, for franchises, first-in-franchise) film that portrayed a man-vs-machine war? The closer we get to a population of people mostly born after the mid-1980s, the better the reaction appears to likely be.

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Re:Winner-take-all effects in autonomous cars by maxerickson on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @10:35PM (#15078113)
The Matrix comes to mind as a movie that portrayed the aftermath of an apocalyptic war between man and machine.

There's quite a few recent rogue AI movies, but they typically have a few characters stopping the machine rather than a war. Avengers 2, I Robot, Eagle Eye.

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