“However, it’s important that people improve their liver health not just by drinking coffee,” she said, “but by also cutting down on alcohol and keeping to a healthy weight by exercising and eating well.”
This may be a band-aid on an open wound but it's better to avoid being wounded in the first place.
50 % reduction in mortality is not a "band-aid". It's medication, and a good one.
"All Apologies", while not Nirvana's biggest hit on the charts, has over time become one of their best-known songs, and was the last song on their final album. It contains the lyric "In the sun, I feel as one".
An extrapolation from this to "I don't care/I feel as one, drowned in the sun," seems pretty uncreative. A lyricist would probably avoid such obviously similar lyrics to avoid the perception of re-writing the same song. As such, at least the lyrics seem like a pretty unimpressive effort.
The concept in the original play was much more similar to the replicants of Blade Runner than to metallic android types of robots in a lot of other science fiction.
This is a stage in the ongoing re-ordering of international tax norms after the deterioration of what has been called a “century-old, mostly European gentlemen’s agreement”. But it is not the case that nothing has been done about it, as with the OECD BEPS project operationalizing "meaningful changes in the participants, agenda, institutions, norms, and legal instruments of international tax." as described and argued in this paper:
The old "sue our savviest customers" trick -- never a good sign.
Fortunately everyone loves airlines and air travel, so they've got good will to burn. Imagine if a widely detested business tried this!
To be sure, some people might poison it for personal gain.
A person who embarrassed Google or another company developing autonomous robots could stand to gain by shorting their stock.
As to your list of reasons for criminal activity, have you heard of terrorism?
Finally, think of still other cases like the Iranian centrifuges.
If this research raises concern that outsourced training of AIs may include back doors, a committee of separately trained AIs that "vote" on identifying things ought to address this threat, unless somehow the same backdoor is inserted into all committee members' training, which could be guarded against.
This would also help to identify any such back doors, which could be found in an investigation whenever a particular vote is not unanimous.
Image recognition will be an important component of allowing autonomous robotic systems to function correctly. Robots will be more useful if they can recognize some thing by how they look, rather than requiring us to tag everything of interest in the real world with some secure system of correct identification. So anything that subverts image recognition raises a concern for safe and correct operation, rather than more typical computer security concerns, such as improper access control or authorization.
So why would anyone want to attack the safe and correct function of autonomous robots?
A malicious person might want to poison the training set to embarrass or hurt Google (or any other competitor making autonomous robots), more than in an effort to hurt a particular person, get around security, or damage a particular thing.
Heavier than air flying machines are impossible. -- Lord Kelvin, President, Royal Society, c. 1895
