This also does not bode well for the future.

"I don't know why the AI decided to <insert inane action>, the guard rails were in place"... company absolves of all responsibility.

Use your imagination now to <insert inane action> and change that to <distressing, harmful action>

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_aavaa_ 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

This has been the past and present for a long at this point. "Sorry there's nothing we can do, the system won't let me."

Also see Weapons of Math Destruction [0].

[0]: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/241363/weapons-of-m...

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c22 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I don't know if this case is in the book you cited, but in the UK they convicted many people of crimes just because the computer told them so: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Post_Office_scandal

	▲	shakna 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		And Australia made the poorer and suicidal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robodebt_scheme

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denkmoon 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Also elegantly summed up as "Computer says no" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0YGZPycMEU)

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gammarator 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Also “The Unaccountability Machine” https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/U/bo252799...

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WaitWaitWha 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This already happens every single time when there is a security breach and private information is lost.

We take your privacy and security very seriously. There is no evidence that your data has been misused. Out of an abundance of caution… We remain committed to... will continue to work tirelessly to earn ... restore your trust ... confidence.

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hxugufjfjf 3 hours ago | parent [-]

What else would you see them do or say beyond this canned response? The reason I am asking is because people almost always bring up how dissatisfied they are with such apologies, yet I’ve never seen a good alternative that someone would be happy with. I don’t work in PR or anything, just curious if there is a better way.

	▲	_carbyau_ 3 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Lose money accordingly - fines, penalties, recompense to victims, whatever... - so they then take the seriousness of security into account.
	▲	Eisenstein 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Not apologize if they don't actually care. An insincere apology is an insult.

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incr_me 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Unfortunately, the market seems to have produced horrors by way of naturally thinking agents, instead. I wish that, for all these years of prehistoric wretchedness, we would have had AI to blame. Many more years in the muck, it seems.

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tapoxi 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Change this to "smash into a barricade" and that's why I'm not riding in a self-driving vehicle. They get to absolve themselves of responsibility and I sure as hell can't outspend those giants in court.

	▲	repeekad 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I agree with you for a company like Tesla, not only examples of self driving crashes but even the door handles would stop working when the power was cut, people trapped inside burning vehicles... Tesla doesn’t care Meanwhile, Waymo has never been at fault for a collision afaik. You are more likely to be hurt by an at fault uber driver than a Waymo