What I think is demonstrated here is that it's plain obvious now how fragile the system controlling our society has become with its increasing dependency on the complex system of interconnected computers.  Then when you consider this will be exponentially greater as AI systems are introduced as another layer on top of this layer, it doesn't matter if it's a "rare" occurence.  Forget 1 in 100, even if your failure rate is 1:10000000, if that 1 failure is catastrophic, all those wonderful benefits you claim for the rest of the time are wiped out.  It's like a Nuke Meltdown, all it takes is one failure at Chernobyl and you wipe out the neighborhood in a 50 mile radius for generations.  The computer systems are doing so many operations every day with so many code updates, failures are baked in the cake.

Imagine a software glitch update like thiss happening when Elon has a million Robotaxis on the road and a line of code that was supposed to control the brakes slipped into the accelerator module.  Or how about when they start replacing Air Traffic Controllers with AI systems?

The Chinese already drop Kill switches into cell phone chips that wwe KNOW about.  Every time you drop a new App on your smart phone that asks if it can make changes to the op system, there's an opportunity for some nefarious code to be inserted in your machine.  That code can go and replicate to other machines.  A well designed virus could probably shut down the whole banking system in na nanosecond.  If/when we have a big enough conflict with the Ruskies or Chinese, you gotta figure an attack on the networks would come quick.  Hell, even the North Koreans and Iranians have some good Code Jockeys who went to MIT or Stanford.

My recommendation is you shouldn't install a smart toilet. Hopefully you'll still be able to flush when the net crashes.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/23/business/crowdstrike-tech-nightcap/index.html

The global tech outage showed how we're just one mistake away from chaos

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