In 2019 I was invited to speak to a San Francisco Bay Area chapter of the Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA) about robot dangers. Here’s a slide I presented documenting a long yet sparse history of human deaths. Note, this is known civilian deaths. The rate of death from sloppy extrajudicial Palantir has … Continue reading Robots Been Killing People for Years: USAF Brings It Up And People Get Scared→
You may recall my 2018 post about the supply-chain ethics of Toyota light trucks used for militant political destabilization. Basically when technology gets battle-tested with life-and-death results, the optimal tools for the job become somewhat self-evident. If driving around to shoot things is the job, then a light truck (before light electric-motorbikes arrived) repeatedly came … Continue reading American Bemoans “Big Dumb and Blind” Truck Options, Demands Import of Chicken Little Trucks→
In 1993 I worked with some of the world’s best OCR scanners and various text to speech systems, as a volunteer in a program to help blind graduate students. By 1997 I was deploying industry leading speech to text at a major clinical and research hospital…. The technology and subject matter has been familiar to … Continue reading Elon Musk Haunted by His Lies: Begs Judge to Blame Someone Else→
The big question is why Enron, “the most innovative company in America“, ever got caught and held accountable for the thing Elon does constantly: lie and defraud people. …Times story carried a quote from the closing arguments of the plaintiffs’ lawyer, Nicholas Porritt: “This case is about whether rules that apply to everybody else should … Continue reading How Elon Musk Pulls An Enron And Gets Away With It→