>>7286271It doesn't grab people like a AI-guided trolley, but computer models that show a balance between cost of production and safety.
Vehicles, power systems, etc. have a certain amount of potential casualties and points of failure that can occur, but protecting people 100% of the time from them is considered prohibitively expensive. So there are computer systems that people can run their designs through to predict how few potential failures are affordable.
One system may fail 1 in 500,000,000 times, and the other may fail 1 in 10,000,000 times, but would cost more, so the program chooses the variety that is likely save more lives per dollar value.
Other examples would be a Cold War missile response system, which would automatically fire nuclear warheads if it detected that a foreign object entered its airspace with a certain amount of signs it was a bomb. The certainty level required was set by a computer. One almost went off during a test in Russia. We were one drowsy technician short of losing part the east coast.
Who the hell knows how many countries have these systems now? They certainly don't rely on a line of sight to tell when the nukes start flying.
Algorithms determine the distribution of food, medical supplies, etc. in the remaining communist nations. Computer systems are integrated in all areas of governance around the world and prediction markets have a huge impact on the global economy.
computers don't control everything, but they sure as hell decide things that affect people's lives
