[ExI] bots replacing humans...

[spike at rainier66.com]

...> On Behalf Of Keith Henson via extropy-chat
Subject: Re: [ExI] bots replacing humans...

On Thu, Jun 1, 2023 at 10:17 AM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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>>... Spike, I am told that bots run municipal water systems.

>...That's not exactly the case.  I noted that the controls for water systems are on the Internet.  There was a case where someone broke into one and increased the fluoride to the max.  Was not enough to hurt, but they could have shut off the pumps....Keith

Keith I bet that was MY DENTIST whodunnit, the shifty-eyed bahstid.  He was mysteriously absent from the office that day.


>...Who is liable if they mess up?  Somebody has to be liable...

Whereas we have grown comfortably accustomed to that notion, it isn't clear to me that those of us who use the chatbot service lines and such, the information equivalent of the self-checkout line at Walmart (oh I do love that) will have anyone to sue if things don't work out for us.  When you think about it, the internet in general is one of those buyer beware places: you cannot rely on the information found there.  Likewise with mainstream news.

This all makes sense: liability lawsuits have generally replaced traditional criminal legal system.  As that happened, being an employer became steadily more risky.  For instance, an employer is liable if they fires a worthless employee if that employee is in a protected class.  The employer is even liable if an employee is sexually harassing another employee.  In every case, the civil courts take sides against the corporation.  

Well, OK then, this adds still more incentive to replace the human employees as quickly as possible, and tell the consumer this hotline is strictly self-help.  It might not help at all, and might cause harm, just as the case with reading some self-help books.  Dianetics was a self-help book, of sorts.  

spike