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by accrual 2138 days ago
This reminded me of Therac-25 [0] wherein people died or were seriously harmed by software malfunctions in a radiation therapy machine, and standards were introduced [1] to help mitigate future incidents.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEC_62304