In reply to Sally G..

You are thinking emotionally, not logically. Until you can prove that AI driven devices harm more than humans harm your point of an AI driven car killing someone is moot. As someone said, thousands of humans kill humans every day in cars and you aren’t raising an objection. How would a human not know how to fix AI driven cars? Your fears are extrapolations without a logical chain. You are grasping at a problem without a foundational step to that problem. What you are really afraid of is the “New,” and this fear has resurfaced time and time again. I have family members who are afraid of Siri – thinking it is a demon working inside a phone to answer your queries, like a Ouija board.

In the 1950’s people were afraid of computers. The fear passed and sadly they are once again afraid of computers (AI). Your fears are no different than people afraid of a lunar eclipse, of fire, or of pre-ai computers. Just because you don’t understand it, doesn’t make it dangerous. Just because fiction has been written about negative AI, doesn’t mean it will happen. Just because AI makes mistakes doesn’t mean it’s more dangerous than a human. Just because you don’t understand it, doesn’t mean it isn’t controllable.