> misuse of any mundane service or desktop app That's way, way over-trivializing the issue. Self-driving cars absolutely will kill someone. The driver may be

> misuse of any mundane service or desktop app That's way, way over-trivializing the issue. Self-driving cars absolutely will kill someone. The driver may be at fault for being distracted, but as long as the system allows for distracted drivers, the software is the process. See: Aviation post-mortems. Medical equipment is another example. We do not need to go as far as Therac, there has been a number of near-misses which in the absence of independent post-mortems, are never recorded anywhere. Drones and autonomous warfare also occupies many developers. Social scoring systems, and taxation and payment systems, should also not be trivialized. Even if they do not make spectacular media coverage, they absolutely kill people. No indenpendent post-mortems to be seen, blameless or otherwise.