I call these the Bhopal 2.0 problems. Bhopal was a disaster where 32tons of toxic MIC gas was released into the atmosphere and killed 3,787 injuring half a mill

I call these the Bhopal 2.0 problems. Bhopal was a disaster where 32tons of toxic MIC gas was released into the atmosphere and killed 3,787 injuring half a million people. My premise for Bhopal 2.0 is we automate processes so much and have no accounting for waste and damage that we simply focus on the top number. Ask an ML to optimize for an output and it will, happily, All the while harming people around the process - automatically. Right now Bhopol 2.0 processes are all focused on information systems - abstractions, so it's much harder to point and say "look, this is dangerous". People do very, very, very badly with abstractions. In some way this already happened with the recent elections. But that was purposely aiming the machines at us.