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by sounds 3455 days ago
Good analysis, but I think we should call out the "predictable catastrophic failures."

Humans can see the scenarios below coming from enough distance to mitigate the problem and AIs have not yet demonstrated equivalence:

1. Slow/erratic person or vehicle suddenly veers into the path of travel. AIs so far tend to just be ultra-safe here and stay far away, which is not the same thing as understanding the situation.

2. Construction zone path of travel is suddenly obstructed. (I'm picking a major scenario to exemplify a class of scenarios where humans surpass AIs still in predicting their environment.)

3. A vehicle ahead performs an emergency maneuver, which communicates unseen/undetected driving hazards. A human can reason from what the vehicle did to what the hazard might be, and immediately begin mitigating the hazard. AIs have not been very forthcoming with detailed behavior descriptions, but they all appear to still be mainly designed as advanced control loops (that is to say, mostly stateless). And yes, it's going to be a legal morass when AIs begin to follow "rules of behavior," since there will always be exceptions.