“Safety regulations are written in blood”.
Nuclear power, air travel, trains, industrial ovens have all had industry changing incidents that cost lives but resulted in better safety. Hindsight is 20:20 and we look at lockouts and deadman switches and wonder why people had to get hurt.
What else is out there that we do or interact with regularly that hasn’t caused enough harm yet to result in those changes?
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Some AI-related incident of epic proportions, obviously
When a self-driving car gets hijacked and takes out a crowd.
Something to do with AI for sure.
Encryption failure after AI makes all known modern encryption obsolete.
Cyber criminals hack an airliner and it crashes on a nuclear power plant.
During the rushed evacuation, a technician at a nearby bio lab drops a vial containing a deadly virus, starting an outbreak.
Disinformation fueled by AI bots and foreign adversaries make people believe this is all a hoax. They don’t follow precautions. A deadly pandemic balloons out of control; people die in droves.
Various countries and factions take advantage of their adversaries’ weakened positions and regional conflicts and uprisings start, threatening a global war.
Hilarity ensues.
All of the satellites orbiting earth are bound to come down sometime. They can’t all hit the water. I picture them being a little like hail. Let’s hope I’m wrong.
As someone who supports fracking, even I will concede that the first accident involving fracking will likely be the last.