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> political removal due to prioritizing success over safety I don't really see the parallel. It seems impossible to have success in self-driving without safet
by jsnell 3y ago
> political removal due to prioritizing success over safety
I don't really see the parallel.
It seems impossible to have success in self-driving without safety. Cars that are unsafe will literally kill people, which will then kill the program as seen with Uber.
The AI safety/success tradeoff seems far more nuanced. The threats are abstract, largely hypothetical, and safety seems to be directly in opposition with success. So it's easy to see why product-oriented people would feel justified in making a call to ignore or down-prioritize safety, in a way that nobody running a self-driving car program can afford to.