mags @maenad@cthonic.club

All those years of offering blood to gods and what are they supposed to do with it, exactly?

Just... a planet-sized ball of blood, tucked in a corner 'cause they've been too busy to haul it to the recycling center.

And while I know that's less likely on here than in birdsite, I don't want to see a single fucking skynet joke about this. These are algorithms. They're programs designed by people who wrote (or were directed to write) decision making processes that decide how to prioritize pedestrian safety. The first AI causalities have already happened and they're the fault of at best careless, at worst fucking compassionless human beings.

And the worry here isn't "who do I sue if I get hit", it's this fear of a future where responsibility over pedestrian lives is abdacated to a driving program. The most likely scenario, knowing these companies, is that they'll force additional responsibility for safety into pedestrians on already hostile roads. I'm increasingly afraid me or someone I know will be declared to have been killed by a perfectly functioning algorithm.

One of the things that sticks in my craw about self driving cars right now is that there doesn't seem to be any clear legal responsibility for injury or death by self driving vehicles (and you better believe I'm thinking of the cybertruck here).

Last week a 21 year old in NY was crushed between two parked vehicles when one of them accidentally started and rolled forward. And whenever I read stuff like this I can't help but think "who's at fault"