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isopede ◴[] No.45036862[source]
I strongly believe that we will see an incident akin to Therac-25 in the near future. With as many people running YOLO mode on their agents as there are, Claude or Gemini is going to be hooked up to some real hardware that will end up killing someone.

Personally, I've found even the latest batch of agents fairly poor at embedded systems, and I shudder at the thought of giving them the keys to the kingdom to say... a radiation machine.

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1. throwawayoldie ◴[] No.45042356[source]
They killed "only" about 350 people combined, but the two fatal crashes of the Boeing 737 MAX in 2018 and 2019 were due to poor quality software:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maneuvering_Characteristics_Au...