> I think people have seen way too many scary movies about AI, and it's tainted our whole discipline. I think this is ridiculously unfair. My concerns about po

> I think people have seen way too many scary movies about AI, and it's tainted our whole discipline. I think this is ridiculously unfair. My concerns about policies like this have nothing at all to do with strong AI. We don't need scary movies to see examples of software decisions made with no access to human overrides. A simple and extremely topical example: years ago, my Google account somehow got screwed up. It decided I was 13, and never aged. Six years after I made it, I was still 13. It turned out there was no way to fix that. If you were under 13, they would close your account for ToS violation. Then, after closure, you could fax proof of age and get your account fixed. But if your account was listed at 13, forever? No such luck. There was no way whatsoever to fix the problem. No phone number, and (as with all Google problems) lengthy support forum threads amounting to "deal with it". I have no idea how this happened. But it was completely irreparable, until one day the bug got fixed and my age was right. That's the stuff I worry about - simple rules being applied absolutely, with no recourse to human judgement.