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by rscho 931 days ago
Security-critical tasks and programming language research will involve humans coding for the foreseeable future. I don't think you'd like your surgical robot to be programmed in English.
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Yes, because English is a cut-put language. So instead of cutting some organ (open) (to treat it), the robot might put it in the dustbin instead, due to a speech recognition bug.

;)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38157851