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Sounds like a plot for a sci-fi novel, but things get serious when software can kill you.
by thomasfl 11y ago
Sounds like a plot for a sci-fi novel, but things get serious when software can kill you.
- Malic 11y agoSoftware flaws have been know to kill, so "killing software" has been with us for awhile. For more details, check out Peter G Neumann's "Computer-Related Risks". Automatic doors crushing people, radiation equipment (for the treatment of cancer) going way out of spec, and many more.
- angdis 11y agoYes, there are interesting lessons in that, but we're entering new territory when software systems will be explicitly tasked to make life-or-death "decisions" without the active control of a human. The correct answer might be ethically foggy even for humans. This is definitely problematic.