Defining “disaster” as something that directly causes the deaths of >100 people (intentionally or unintentionally)
1,000Other: It already happened and hasn't stopped. We talk about it but we don’t really talk about it.
What defines artificial intelligence?
Goals. Feedback loops. A lack of true human control. An unaligned intelligence optimizing against human interests.
That’s already the definition of a corporation.
We know corporations have committed atrocities.
The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire (learned about it in college) was one of the first widely acknowledged examples of a machine built for profit ignoring the safety of its human parts.
And it didn’t stop there. Every oil spill, every chemical leak, every "acceptable loss" is the same algorithm running again.
The first AI disaster wasn’t digital. It was corporate and it didn't stop anything.