A law requiring anyone doing work in or on AI be subject to strict liability. Very strict. And that companies in that business name and publish a governing panel to internally regulate their AI work. And be subject to the aforementioned strict liability. Up to and including prison time. And no discharging liability through bankruptcy*.

The government can't regulate something that it does not understand. And maybe private enterprise doesn't either. But they need to shoulder the risk. This could be something like a mesothelioma trust fund, but set up before people start coofing.

*Hey. If it's good enough for student loans ...

Not really a great place to live. It being the final resting place for some of the targets from the Bikini Atoll tests. Also, the recovered remains of K-129 that we claim not to have are buried on one of the S.F. Bay Islands. Maybe this one.

We choose to do AI in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they look easy.

All I need is support for Mojibake.

... for the lobbying failure. They tried contributing in BitCoin. Then someone converted that to pizzas and got upset.

I just hate it when Firefox trips my breaker trying to sort out Slashdot character encoding.

Oh come on! Slashdot can handle a percent sign just fine. It's just some Slashdditor that can't enter the correct character.

We had better get all those Teslas off the street, parked over storm drains.

Which administration? The DOJ complaints/investigations/consent decree against the Seattle police department started during the Clinton administration (or before), generated findings during G.W. Bush's and was acted upon during Obama's.

Law enforcement in general and the DOJ in particular are less political than you think*. And it's not Flock they will be doing something about. It's the abuse by the local police departments.

*Every time I hear accusations of politicized law enforcement, I just envision the scene of the bank robber screaming, "Attica! Attica!" Get off that high horse. You're robbing a bank.

Simple solution: Throw in a couple of "2+2=5"* terms in the preliminary draft and watch the AI get egg on it's face.

*Already supported by social media site scraping. So it should pass muster with any AI quality control.

That's a good start. Assuming that many of these searches aren't being used for personal reasons.

Imagine having a case go to court and the defense counsel asks, "What was your probable cause for detaining my client?" And the cop on the stand can only cite the Flock evidence with "LMAO" as justification. Thrown right out of court.

So many of these searches may never reach a courtroom. Fine. Until the DOJ gets a few complaints and they come in to investigate. And uncover this b.s. (see Seattle Police Department misconduct and consent decree). I have it on good authority that FBI undercover agents _do_not_like_ investigating dirty police departments*. And they take it out on those cops doubly hard. Not a position I'd want to be in as a city cop.

*I think they all want to work counter intelligence. Finding Chinese spies, wearing tuxedos and hanging out in casinos with martinis and Bond girls.

The system needs to be dismantled. The cameras need to be removed or destroyed. Hand-slaps for everyone won't work. Cops don't get fired or disciplined like normal employees and anyone who says different isn't paying attention.

If they're smart, they'll put batteries near the loads. And then when the wind blows, they can de-energize lines and keep peoples lights on.

Except people aren't smart. I don't know about California, but here in Washington State, communities in the woods out on the fringes of the grid are fighting a battery installation. Because Teslas catch fire. Teslas have batteries. So everything with batteries will catch fire.

You can build a fire break around a battery substation. Not so much around a garage with an EV.

It's California. They get a gold star for being California.

Compared to when? Hoover Dam, in 1936? The Four Corners Generating plant in New Mexico since 1963? The Pacific DC Intertie since 1970?

California has a long and storied history of integrating everyone else's power for years to feed their air conditioning, hot tubs and motorized sex toys. It's almost as if they have been all on their own, running on San Onofre and Diablo Canyon. Poor little things.