Comment by imiric

The concerning aspect of all of this isn't the financial cost of these blunders, and what happened in the past. It is the increasing risk to human lives, and what will happen in the future. The Boeing case was only a sign of what's to come.

Take "AI", for instance. It is being adopted left and right as if it's the solution to all of our problems, and developers, managers, and executives are increasingly relying on it. Companies and governments love it because it can cut costs and potentially make us more productive. Most people are more than happy to offload their work to it, do a cursory check of its output, if at all, and ship it or publish it and claim the work as their own. After all, it can always serve as a scapegoat if things do go wrong, and its manufacturers can brush these off as user errors. Ultimately there is no accountability.

These are all components of a recipe for greater disasters. As these tools are adopted in industries where safety is paramount, in the military, etc., it's only a matter of time for more human lives to be impacted. Especially now when more egomaniacal autocrats are taking power, and surrounding themselves with yes-people. Losing face and admitting failure is not part of their playbook. We're digging ourselves into a hole we might not be able to get out of.