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NYC Mayor Eric Adams greenlights self-driving cars. Now considering the theory that Adams is an LLM gone rogue. (gazette.com)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Sure. It's a tough question, though; morally, yes, cars are physical objects and typically well-regulated, but self-driving cars are enabled by software, which tends to flout legal demands. I hope in this case that the sheer physical presence of cars will enable regulators to ban unsafe vehicles from public roads, but it's not as clear-cut as we'd like.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

Software doesn’t flout legal demands; companies and people who make it choose to obey or ignore laws and regulations, and lawmakers choose to enforce the law or not. As the FTC just said in the US last month: “Price fixing by algorithm is still price fixing”. The roads are heavily regulated public spaces.

https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/blog/2024/03/price-fixing-algorithm-still-price-fixing