#safety (5 links)
- Why I Changed My Mind About AI Risk - by Francis Fukuyama persuasion.community
The primary science fiction scenario for out-of-control AIs involves machines developing their own malevolent intentions. This has provoked a host of discussions as to whether an AI could develop consciousness or have something like human intentionality. These speculations are misplaced, however: an AI does not need either consciousness or autonomous intentionality to become dangerous. It can be directed by a human to achieve one goal and develop intentions to achieve the subordinate goals necessary to carry out the human directive it was given.
- Everything You Know About Lightning Safety in the Backcountry Is Wrong outsideonline.com
- FatallyFlawed fatallyflawed.org.uk
- New Statesman | How mistakes can save lives: one man’s mission to revolutionise the NHS newstatesman.com
<blockquote>Chapanis had recognised that human beings’ propensity to make mistakes when they are tired is much harder to fix than the design of levers. His deeper insight was that people have limits, and many of their mistakes are predictable effects of those limits. That is why the architects of CRM defined its aim as the reduction of human error, rather than pilot error. Rather than trying to hire or train perfect pilots, it is better to design systems that minimise or mitigate inevitable human mistakes.</blockquote>
Drivers pass closer when overtaking cyclists wearing helmets than when overtaking bare-headed cyclists, increasing the risk of a collision, the research has found.