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From: tas@occrsh.ATT.COM
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: does AI kill?
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Date: 15 Jul 88 13:29:00 GMT
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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
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	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