The fallacies about bad software:
• If software would do harm, it won’t be deployed.
• If it *does* get deployed, the harm won’t be significant.
• If the harm *is* significant, it will quickly be identified, acknowledged and rectified.
Australia has gone through its own horrendous episode of persecution and suicides with the Robodebt scandal:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robodebt_scheme
so I’m looking forward to watching the acclaimed dramatisation of the UK’s Horizon scandal:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Post_Office_scandal
“Mr Bates vs The Post Office”, which screens on Channel 7 / 7plus in Australia starting next Wednesday.
Needless to say, everyone rushing to insert LLMs into every conceivable nook and cranny of the commercial, scientific, administrative and judicial systems should be strapped to their chairs with their eyelids pinned open and made to watch this fifteen times.
Greg Egan /
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2024-02-09 10:47:37
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