I agree with you in this instance, you make a good point. 99% accuracy sounds great on paper, but that's a very painful 1% remainder - and in this case, there's

I agree with you in this instance, you make a good point. 99% accuracy sounds great on paper, but that's a very painful 1% remainder - and in this case, there's no way a rational human would have acted in the same disastrous way the AI did. That said, in many other applications of AI, a 1% error rate is probably a huge success. AI does not need to be perfect to be considered successful, it only needs to do better than a human. In this example, AI failed miserably at that, but there are plenty of applications where AI errs far less frequently than humans do at the same task.