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Stuff like this gives me pause in the tech industry. My brother is in med-school and always joke with him that the worst thing I can at work is take a website d
by _fat_santa 5y ago
Stuff like this gives me pause in the tech industry. My brother is in med-school and always joke with him that the worst thing I can at work is take a website down and the worst thing he can do is kill someone.
But with tech like this, you can literally kill someone with it. Sure you're not actually "killing" anyone, but the decisions these systems make can drive someone to end their life, whether or not the accusations by the machine are true. I wouldn't want to be the guy building that software.
- commandlinefan 5y ago> can drive someone to end their life Don't underestimate the possibility of somebody else ending their lives for them in a fit of righteous rage.
- jareklupinski 5y agolest we forget > Because of concurrent programming errors (also known as race conditions), it sometimes gave its patients radiation doses that were hundreds of times greater than normal, resulting in death or serious injury. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25