“It’s Not Going to Be Easy”: The Boeing Tragedy Is Just the Beginning of the Self-Driving Techpocalypse | Vanity Fair
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Software-based accidents are still incredibly rare, Clive Thompson, the author of the new book Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World, told me in an interview. And yet, when we consider a future in which our lives are dictated by lines of code, there is vast potential for unforeseen trouble. “If we’re going to have big #robot devices zooming around us all day long, we’re going to need rigorous review of the code. That’s clear. We’re moving to a world where F.A.A.-like regulation will reach into lots of newfangled machines,” Thompson told me. “It’s not going to be easy, and there’ll always be risk. Software’s complex, so it’s hard to tell how it’ll behave in everyday life. The F.A.A. already regulates aircraft software pretty tightly, yet we got the Max 8 catastrophe.”
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