In the News (#1655)

Language is one of the things making us human and all of a sudden a mediator is stepping into that process. – Sandra Wachter Welcome to the Future (#1475) If this doesn’t horrify you, you might be a useful idiot: Two teens who engaged a Waymo car for an afternoon of carousing were…[robotically] delivered…to the San Mateo police. The 15-year-olds allegedly were drinking alcohol and shooting water beads from a toy gun as they rode…Waymo stopped the car in a parking lot[, locked the doors,] and [called the cops on them]…Waymo cars have interior cameras…monitored by the company’s employees [or a computer]… Some people seem to think this is OK because the teens were acting like idiots, but if a robot car can trap riders and deliver them to the cops for one reason, it can do the same for any other reason the corporation chooses or is compelled by law to implement. And if you think those internal cameras won’t soon have facial recognition capability, or that monitoring them won’t eventually…