[lqdc13]

Why do humans distrust "algorithms"? Maybe they had past experiences where algorithms behaved worse than humans?

A recent example from recently: facebook replaced human-curated news with machine-curated, they started trending fake news [2].

Another example is algorithms that try to help you during automated phone calls, hence people always try to get to a human. This is because the speech-to-concept parsing/mapping is flawed or because they're not programmed to perform some specific tasks.

Another example is self-driving cars. Google cars have been involved in more accidents per mile than average humans[1].

In general, people's intuition is built through repeated encounters, that's why it is so great.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-12-18/humans-ar... [2] http://www.theverge.com/2016/8/30/12702478/facebook-trending...

[titzer]

From [1],

> Driverless vehicles have never been at fault, the study found: They’re usually hit from behind in slow-speed crashes by inattentive or aggressive humans unaccustomed to machine motorists that always follow the rules and proceed with caution.

Which completely negates the point you are trying to make.

[lqdc13]

The point is they are involved in more accidents. The rest is spin.

The goal is to have the robot-driven car survive in a human world and perform in this world better than humans, not the other way around.