That is very, very far from the only thing that can go wrong. Human extinction is within the range of possibilities.

Waymo, at least, has explicitly taken responsibility for whatever their self-driving cars do. And, honestly, it doesn't seem possible for a self-driving system's maker to avoid liability, because there's absolutely no other entity to assign it to. Tesla avoids liability (so far) by explicitly requiring human supervision. But if they ever want to claim level 4 or 5 they're going to have to take responsibility.

I think such a disclaimer would be invalid in all jurisdictions, if they even tried to make it, which I don't think they'll do because it would be ridiculous. As for settling... yeah, that's what basically always happens with automobile accidents. The at-fault party (or their insurer) pays the costs of the injured party. No one even bothers going to court unless there's a dispute about which party was at fault, and one thing about self-driving systems is that they have incredibly-detailed sensor data, all logged and available for review, so there really won't ever be any dispute about fault.

True, but keep in mind that this is not universal. For me, and for two of my children, writing by hand reduces learning and retention. We have some sort of dyslexia-adjacent disability that prevents us from "automating" writing the way most people do. When kids learn to write, they learn to draw the letter shapes out line by line and curve by curve, but for most people the shape-drawing quickly becomes automatic. Not so for me, or my kids. Writing takes focus and attention, not on the text being written, but on the shapes being drawn. Interestingly, this appears to have no effect on reading; all of us read (and type) rapidly and accurately.

I realized in high school that the common wisdom that hand-written note-taking helped with retention not only didn't work for me, but was actively harmful to learning. I wish I'd had the option of bringing a laptop to class, but in the mid 80's laptops were more "luggable" than portable, didn't have batteries and were far more expensive than my family could afford. So I just listened without taking notes, and studied by reading the textbook. Luckily, school came easily to me so I was able to do well without notes (or all that much studying). In college I learned to ask the professors for their lecture notes to study from.

It would be the human who submitted the AI code who is on the hook.

His surname is one transposition away from "AI Mode".

All those things could be true about human generated code too.

My point is that a guy with all the money still chooses to do it, shows that people lose themselves when they have nothing to do that involves more than just enjoyment.

The US was doing weapons tests in space before China even got past the KÃrmÃn line. That's some Israeli level arbitrary cut-off dating there.

Just shows that there is no amount of money that replaces some sort of meaning in one's life. Bezos will treat any business correctly, obviously he will be looking for maximum efficiency, which is not easy to do when you are a billionaire, after all, any issues that can be sold by throwing money at it he can really solve this way, which may be the wrong approach for a new business that needs to become useful by standing on its own 2 legs.

But it is just interesting to observe, a guy with all the money and access, he still wants to spend time working rather than enjoying yet another sunny day on one of his yachts.

Exactly. Treat it like any other submission. If it is well written, clear, works as intended, passes all the tests, then it's good. Who or what wrote it isn't really relevant.

Right. And to be clear, I'm not saying that's a bad thing. Maybe those scientists should have been punished for their part in the atrocities, but making something actually useful from those weapons was a good thing.

Yeah, because all even/all odd is (from basic statistics) rare, and happens to be rarer than the percentage of people who play all-even or all-odd, so you'd be more likely to split any winnings.

They wear out and need to be replaced. Demand was low, AI increased demand, but the manufacturers see it as a bubble and aren't going to massively ramp out output to meet it.

This reminds me of when Germany built new coal plants and there was much hand wringing. In fact they closed more than they opened, and the new ones were designed to fit better into a heavily renewable grid.

Another good reason to invest in solar. The more energy you generate yourself, the less you are beholden to whatever they want to charge you for it.

It's just how they organize it. You wouldn't say NASA is a military organization because its funding is authorized by congress that also authorizes military spending, or because the president is also the Commander in Chief.

Some countries maintain the fig leaf of separate military and civilian space programmes, but that's all it is. For example the Space Shuttle was designed around military payload needs, and regularly used to deploy military satellites.