> For instance, an autonomous driving system that doesn't know the first thing about the zombie apocalypse could put its passengers' lives at risk by refusing t

> For instance, an autonomous driving system that doesn't know the first thing about the zombie apocalypse could put its passengers' lives at risk by refusing to run over "pedestrians". I think that argument works better the other way. I'm outspoken in arguing many of the edge cases in driving are general intelligence problems we're not about to solve by optimising software over a few billion more miles in a simulator, but I don't want that intelligence so generalised that my car starts running down elderly pedestrians because there's been a lot of zombie literature on the Internet lately. I'm pretty confident there's more risk of people dying from that than a zombie apocalypse.