Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!amdahl!pacbell!att!occrsh!occrsh.ATT.COM!tas From: tas@occrsh.ATT.COM Newsgroups: comp.ai Subject: Re: does AI kill? Message-ID: <143100002@occrsh.ATT.COM> Date: 15 Jul 88 13:29:00 GMT References: <1376@daisy.UUCP> Lines: 21 Nf-ID: #R:daisy.UUCP:-137600:occrsh.ATT.COM:143100002:000:849 Nf-From: occrsh.ATT.COM!tas Jul 15 08:29:00 1988 >no AI does not kill, but AI-people do. The very people that can ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Good point! Here is a question. Why blame the system when there the human in the loop makes the final decision? I could understand if the Aegis system had interpreted the incoming plane as hostile AND fired the missiles, but it did not. If the captain relied solely on the information given to him by the Aegis system, then why have the human in the loop? The idea is as I always thought was for the human to be able to add in unforeseen factors not accounted for in the programming of the Aegis system. Lets face it, I am sure ultimately it will be easier to place the blame on a computer program (and thus on the supplier) than on a single individual. Isn't that kind of the way things work, or am I being cynical? Tom