I’ve been revisiting Promise Theory (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promise_theory https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promise_theory) and it is interesting to ana

I’ve been revisiting Promise Theory (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promise_theory https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promise_theory) and it is interesting to analyze this with PT: 1. Promises are not obligations 2. Promises are best-effort intentions made by autonomous agents, and made known to an audience 3. Assessment of how agents keep promises is local to the observer 4. Only autonomous agents can make promises. If an agent is not capable of making promises, it is not autonomous. 5. Non-autonomous machines and systems are proxies for humans making and keeping promises with each other 6. Tesla’s driver assist technology is a proxy for promise-making humans 7. Tesla, the company, composed of humans, makes certain promises on the safety properties of their cars and driver assist 8. Human drivers are making promises to other drivers, as well as the governing body, in regards to operating the vehicle (with penalties defined by obligations defined by the governing body) 9. Since the driver assist tech is not fully autonomous, it is a proxy for the human driver’s promises, as well as Tesla 10. Therefore, a human driver falling asleep is breaking his promises regarding the operation of the vehicle 11. But Tesla has also made promises on the _autonomy_ of the vehicle. 12. It isn’t so much that the promise (the intention) is false, but that Tesla has not been keeping its promises regarding safety 13. Contrast this Waymo, who spent a lot of effort to make and keep promises about safety, including documenting a framework to work with first responders.