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"Ito replied: “When we did the car trolley problem, we found that
most people liked the idea that the driver and the passengers could
be sacrificed to save many people. They also said they would never
buy a self-driving car.” It should surprise no one that members of the
public are both more ethical and more intelligent than the machines
we are being encouraged to entrust our lives to." (168)

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"People have intelligence; they can accommodate weirdness.
Computers aren’t intelligent; they can’t." 154

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..confidence is key in technological literacy.
pg 26 Ch 2

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This is a sharp contrast to how brains operate. From an Atlantic
article in 2017: “Our brains today take in more than 11 million pieces
of information at any given moment; because we can process only
about 40 of those consciously, our nonconscious mind takes over,
using biases and stereotypes and patterns to filter out the noise.”4

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This is a sharp contrast to how brains operate. From an Atlantic
article in 2017: “Our brains today take in more than 11 million pieces
of information at any given moment; because we can process only
about 40 of those consciously, our nonconscious mind takes over,
using biases and stereotypes and patterns to filter out the noise.”4

How you feel about the car’s autonomy depends on what you want
to believe about AI

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"Ryan kept referring to Elon Musk. A cult of personality surrounds Musk, unlike any other car designer. Who designed the Ford Explorer? I have no idea. But Elon Musk, even my son knew." (p. 163)

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"The core problem is sentience. Because there was no way to
program theory of mind, the car would never be able to respond to
obstacles the way that a human might. A computer only “knows”
what it’s been told. Without sentience, the cognitive capacity to
reason about the future, it can’t make the split-second decisions
necessary to identify a streetlight as an obstacle and take appropriate
evasive measures." (147)

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““It works,” Ryan said. “The car is ready for total autonomy, but we can’t implement it yet because, you know, regulations.” “You know, regulations,” meant that Joshua Brown died in an Autopilot crash and the NTHSA hadn’t yet finished its investigation—so Tesla had turned off the Autopilot on all cars until the developers could build, test, and roll out new features.”

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“It works,” Ryan said. “The car is ready for total autonomy, but we can’t implement it yet because, you know, regulations.” “You know, regulations,” meant that Joshua Brown died in an Autopilot crash and the NTHSA hadn’t yet finished its investigation—so Tesla had turned off the Autopilot on all cars until the developers could build, test, and roll out new features.” p. 162

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The tech revolution has already happened; tech is now mundane.

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“How you feel about the car’s autonomy depends on what you want to believe about AI. Lots of people, like Minsky and others, want to believe that computers can think. “We’ve had this A.I. fantasy for almost 60 years now,” said Dennis Mortensen, x.ai’s founder and CEO, to Slate in April 2016. “At every turn we thought the only outcome would be some human- level entity where we could converse with it like you and I are [conversing] right now. That’s going to continue to be a fantasy. I can’t see it in my lifetime or even my kids’ lifetime.” p. 144

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"Note the first principle of this book: data is
socially constructed. Please let go of any notion that data is made by
anything except people." (24)

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"The same figure for human error comes up over and over. People
dying is sad; I don’t mean to minimize death. However, when you see
a single statistic like this repeated, it raises suspicions. It usually
means that it comes from a single source, meaning that it comes
from a special interest group trying to influence public opinion. " p. 156

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Instead of making a car that could move through the world like a person, these engineers turned the real world into a video game and navigated the car through it. P.150

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There has never been, nor will there ever be, a

technological innovation that moves us away from the essential

problems of human nature.

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“There’s a saying: When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. Computers are our hammers. It’s time to stop rushing blindly into the digital future and start making better, more thoughtful decisions about when and why to use technology.” p. 12

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Ryan kept referring to Elon Musk. A cult of personality surrounds Musk, unlike any other car designer. Who designed the Ford Explorer? I have no idea. But Elon Musk, even my son knew. “He’s
famous,” my son said. “He was even a guest star on the Simpsons.” p. 162

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"Just as there are fundamental
limits to what we know in mathematics and in science, so are there
fundamental limits to what we can do with technology. There are
also limits to what we should do with technology." (12)

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"The statistical approach turns everything into numbers and estimates probabilities... It’s an elegant solution. It gets approximately the correct result, but for the wrong reason." (p. 150)

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“The unreasonably effective data-driven approach works well enough for electronic search, for simple translation, and for simple navigation. Given enough training data, algorithms indeed will do a good job at a variety of mundane tasks, and human ingenuity usually fills in the blanks.” p. 133

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“Only a GPS reading away from death,” Stewart announced cheerfully. p.143

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technodeterminism (“the belief that tech is always the solution” & other “magical thinking about technology”, Broussard) 

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“People have intelligence; they can accommodate weirdness. Computers aren’t intelligent; they can’t.” p. 148

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"There’s a saying: When all you have is a hammer, everything looks
like a nail. Computers are our hammers. It’s time to stop rushing
blindly into the digital future and start making better, more
thoughtful decisions about when and why to use technology." (12)

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“When people don’t have a framework or a sense of commitment to others, however, they tend to make decisions that seem aberrant. In the case of self-driving cars, there’s no way to make sure that the decisions made by individual technologists in corporate office buildings will match with actual collective good. This leads us to ask, again: Who does this technology serve? How does it serve us to use it? If self-driving cars are programmed to save the driver over a group of kindergarteners, why? What does it mean to accept that programming default and get behind the wheel?” p. 158