The Engineer had agency. The AI (or google search, or a stack of text books) does not.
Of course, if the mad bomber instead posed as a student and found some non-evil reason for wanting the exits to collapse first (even a thin one like directing the dust upwards), the engineer is less culpable or not culpable at all.
But we need to be very careful about imagining an AI has agency. There are many legal and philosophical implications behind that.
The real problem is "connected", not un-encrypted.
So the addresses are bigger, so what?
In most cases, all you care about is the prefix, which is just 64 bits, expressed as 4 groups of 4 hex digits. This is IT, is hex really beyond people's grasp?
Most of the admin is done one terminals that support cut and paste anyway.
What if I voted for a cat but the election went to a pit bull with a brain injury?
Sounds like it's time for U.S. auto makers to figure out how Chines manufacturers are making their cars so inexpensive.
And no, it's NOT all from cheap labor. It's also from efficiency, making a fair profit rather than hand over fist, less marble and mahogany in the executive suite, and paying a reasonable amount to upper management. Also less jet setting for execs.
Do we REALLY have to repeat the '70s and '80s when the Japanese manufacturers spanked the big three?
What happened to "free trade" and "deregulate all the things!"
Not sure what you're referring to. Let's try it this way.
Imagine you are a manager or a CO and you have an employee who keep spending an enormous amount of time working on the exact thing you hired him for. He gets frustrated when he finds stuff he CAN'T explain, wants to research further, and you just brush him off because you really hired him to NOT find anything.
AI has been running at a big loss to get the users hooked. It was inevitable that prices would start climbing. That process is nowhere near done, running AI is expensive as hell.
Once the market starts reflecting the actual costs, you can bet the cost/benefit will not be nearly as rosy as it looks now. But some customers will already have gotten themselves between a rock and a hard place and will be sucked dry, then discarded. Those "expensive" people that are getting dumped will start looking like a bargain, but they will have already been snapped up by smarter companies by the time management that can't see past their own toes figures that out.
All of this makes me remember a short story reading assignment in the 5th grade. It was about kids growing up in a society where machines did all of the intellectual work. To them, writing was 'squiggles'. They managed to disable a filter on their "bard" (a story teller for children) and had it tell them a tale of machines ruling over Man.
Nobody expects prophesy from a 5th grade reading assignment.
The problem is that the people who could afford this and would do it are exactly the people the rest of society is better off without.
As a counterpoint, The Linux kernel and much of the userspace in various distros is done remote. It can work, even on highly collaborative projects. Like anything, some will enjoy that more than others.
Required physical equipment can be a limiting factor, of course. Though I have done firmware development from home because the dev board wasn't expensive nor is a debugger for that hardware.
There is a nicotine source that isn't at all age locked. I guess the teens will move on to these "cigarettes" you hear about from time to time.
They even come in cool Menthol.
The laws are a joke by people who apparently flunked "Hello World".
They demand a mechanism, but don't even offer guidance on what mechanism it should be. You can technically comply while having no 2 Linux installs following the same API, making it effectively useless.
A better approach would be a purely optional userspace package (perhaps call it "Californication") that returns 1 dword with the age information encoded in it. Each person installing it gets to decide what that encoding will be.
Yes, it returned 0x0BADF00D, that's the code for 18+.
Someone else might decide 0x0B00B1E5 means 18+.
Some early adopters of "Here's a complaint one, pretty please use it" included small operations like PGP. Others were small companies then, later to become large.
Not too long after, there was the whole flap around DeCSS for DVDs. The medium itself is nearly dead now, but it was individual efforts that rendered region coding largely a joke. The Chinese vendors whose DVD players didn't give a damn about region codes came second.
MAC user's dynamic debugging list evaluator? Never heard of that.
