And there’s no denying that Collins is right, to a certain degree, and you don’t even need to think about it to draw the same conclusion.
All you have to do is watch any number of sci-fi movies built around the “Skynet theory,” and you will have been inseminated seed of paranoia towards AI and robotics.
The former Top Gear Stig, racing car driver Ben Collins, recently gave a TV interview, which was picked up by Telegraph, where he expresses his rather pessimistic and worrisome view of the future of self-driving vehicles, their application and the ultimate plan of mass adoption.
He explains that he doesn’t see it being any good simply because there are too many parameters and variables that need to be taken into account in order for a drive to actually be a drive, and not a very-very advanced kind of smart cruise control that works in towns too.
Another one of his concerns is that the machines can and will go wrong. We’d add one of our own since GM, for instance, ignored life-threatening faults they had manufactured their cars with for a decade, what guarantees do we (prospective future buyers of this tech) have that they will have the consumer’s interest at heart and not their own corporate well-being? Then there’s also the threat of outside hacking too.
Trust is important, and a very precious principle in all walks of life, but it does not go well in the same sentence with corporation…
By Andrei Nedelea