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Pranking Driverless Cars, Dangerously Foolish Acts
Dr. Lance B. Eliot, AI Insider
When you do a prank on someone, it hopefully is done in jest and with no particular adverse consequences.
Some would say that pranks are fun, interesting, and not a big deal. Even those that pull pranks would likely reluctantly admit that you can take things too far. A good friend of mine got hurt when someone with them at a bar opted to suddenly pull their chair away from the table when they had gotten up, and the friend upon trying to sit back down, unknowingly and shockingly went all the way to the floor. The impact to the floor hurt their back, neck, and nearly caused a head concussion. My friend went to the local emergency room for a quick check-up. A seemingly “fun” joke that was meant to be harmless, turned out to have serious consequences.
Of course, pranks can be purposely designed to be foul.
Let’s shift attention from the notion of pranks to something similar to a prank, but we’ll recast it in different terms.
What does this have to do with AI self-driving cars?
At the Cybernetic AI Self-Driving Car Institute, we are developing AI systems for self-driving cars. One of the concerns currently about AI self-driving cars is that some people are trying prank them.
