> What it's not is God or an independently conscious entity that somehow trumps a thousand years of common law that's built up until now about torts and liabili

> What it's not is God or an independently conscious entity that somehow trumps a thousand years of common law that's built up until now about torts and liability. Agreed, the tendency of people on tech to assume that whatever the most recent thing we've come up with is unprecedented and shouldn't have to follow all of the established patterns we've built up in society for making things safe is wild. I don't know what the next Big Thing will be but I'm pretty confident there will be people claiming it's so different from everything before that we have no choice but to throw out all of the rules for it in the name of progress.