TLDR Founders · MISCELLANEOUS
IT’S EASIER TO FORGIVE A HUMAN THAN A ROBOT
Summary from the TLDR Founders newsletter
Self-driving cars, AI doctors, and lawyers - all of them might save human lives because they’re safer and more accurate than humans. Which in principle, is excellent. However, they’re not going to be perfect - deaths will still happen. Responsibility for deaths then shifts from flawed humans to computers. When a flawed human makes a mistake, it’s imperfect but we get it. But when a computer makes a mistake, who do we blame?