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Many countries are working on them — and neither China, Russia, Iran, India or Pakistan have signed a U.S.-initiated pledge to use military AI responsibly. Another AI project at Space Force analyzes radar data to detect imminent adversary missile launches, he said. One urgent challenge, says Jane Pinelis, chief AI engineer at Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Lab and former chief of AI assurance in Martell’s office, is recruiting and retaining the talent needed to test AI tech. Testing and evaluation standards are also immature, a recent National Academy of Sciences report on Air Force AI highlighted. Might that mean the U.S. one day fielding under duress autonomous weapons that don’t fully pass muster?

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☆ Elon Musk’s worst nightmare
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-12 | by ( Adam Rogers | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +13 min

It's hard to tell, for a simple reason: The data on the safety of robot cars sucks. Until robot cars have traveled for hundreds of millions of miles, there's no way to get a statistically significant, unequivocal conclusion. If the data on robot cars is equivocal or incomplete, then those rules should keep them off the road. In a sense, she's Elon Musk's worst nightmare. To her, the safety of self-driving cars is not an abstract question.

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☆ There's been a whopping 736 Tesla crashes involving Autopilot mode and 17 deaths since 2019, report finds
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-10 | by ( Leslie J. Allen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

736 crashes of Teslas with Autopilot have occurred since 2019, a Washington Post analysis found. One safety expert says the increase is likely related to the expanded rollout of "Full Self Driving" technology. A new analysis has discovered a high number of crashes involving Tesla vehicles in Autopilot mode. The Washington Post says it analyzed data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and found that 736 US crashes of vehicles using the driver-assistance technology had occurred since 2019, a lot more than previously reported. The automaker has said that its automation technology requires that the human driver monitor the vehicle and remain in control at all times.

Persons: Missy Cummings, Tesla Organizations: Washington Post, National, Traffic Safety Administration, Mason Autonomy, Robotics Center, George Mason University, Post Locations: Washington

☆ Peace, love, and Hitler: How Lex Fridman's podcast became a safe space for the anti-woke tech elite
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-03 | by ( Julia Black | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +26 min

Seemingly overnight, episodes of Fridman's podcast began racking up millions of views. YouTube/Lex FridmanIn his podcast, Fridman asks world-renowned scientists, historians, artists, and engineers a series of wide-eyed questions ("Who is God? But recently, "The Lex Fridman Podcast" has become a haven for a growing — and powerful — sector looking to dismantle years of "wokeness" and cancel culture. Twitter"The Lex Fridman Podcast" offered a rare opportunity to listen to four-hour conversations with luminaries of tech and science. Bhaskar Sunkara, the founder and publisher of the socialist magazine Jacobin who appeared on Fridman's podcast in December, praised Fridman's interviewing style.

☆ People are 'over-trusting' self-driving technology and getting into serious accidents that injure or even kill them, warns researcher who Elon Musk once said was 'extremely biased against Tesla'
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-16 | by ( Sam Tabahriti | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

She analyzed almost 400 crashes involving software like Tesla's Autopilot or GM's Super Cruise. Tesla CEO Elon Musk once said that Cummings was "extremely biased against Tesla." She told The New York Times that drivers were "letting the cars speed" while using technology such as Tesla's Autopilot and General Motors' Super Cruise. Following her appointment to the road-safety regulator, Musk tweeted in October 2021 that "Objectively, her track record is extremely biased against Tesla." A report released in June last year by the road-safety agency found that drivers using Tesla's Autopilot software were involved in 273 crashes in 2021.

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