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Re:For Tesla, Facebook and Others, AI’s Flaws Are Getting Ha... by ClumsyPilot on Monday October 04, 2021 @11:48AM (#28748236)
If you save a child from drowning you don't get a 'a kill coupon' you can retrieve next time you are accused of murder.
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Re:For Tesla, Facebook and Others, AI’s Flaws Are Getting Ha... by Sodman on Monday October 04, 2021 @12:08PM (#28748665)
Certainly not, but if we invent a life-saving medicine that 1 in 1 million people have a fatal reaction to, we'll still consider it enough of an overall positive for humanity to celebrate it as a technological win for society.

The ratio isn't 1:1 or even 1:10, but there is a line somewhere where X deaths <caused by new tech> is acceptable because of the X^Y lives saved <by new tech>.

See also: Most modes of transport, most medicines and surgical procedures.

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Re:For Tesla, Facebook and Others, AI’s Flaws Are Getting Ha... by BurningFrog on Monday October 04, 2021 @08:05PM (#28753983)
Deliberate murders of individuals are morally very different from tiny risks of deaths in a large population.

Nothing good comes from trying to treat them as the same.

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