You should join the tobacco lobby! Genius!

More straightforwardly, people are generally very forgiving when people make mistakes, and very unforgiving when computers do. Look at how we view a person accidentally killing someone in a traffic accident versus when a robotaxi does it. Having people run it on their own hardware makes them take responsibility for it mentally, so gives a lot of leeway for errors.

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datsci_est_2015 4 hours ago | parent [-]

I think that’s generally because humans can be held accountable, but automated systems can not. We hold automated systems to a higher standard because there are no consequences for the system if it fails, beyond being shut off. On the other hand, there’s a genuine multitude of ways that a human can be held accountable, from stern admonishment to capital punishment.

I’m a broken record on this topic but it always comes back to liability.

	▲	ass22 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Thats one aspect. Another aspect is that we have much higher expectations of machines than humans in regards to fault-tolerance.

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casey2 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Oh please, why equate IT BS with cancer? If the null pointer was a billion dollar mistake, then C was a trillion dollar invention.

At this scale of investment countries will have no problem cheapening the value of human life. It's part and parcel of living through another industrial revolution.