Do You Have a Concern About Self Driving Cars?

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i was askance that my taxpayer dollars were about to start going into a future that i knew was not coming. I couldn't take it because i worked on these systems every day. And there's just a phenomenal lack of testing to make sure that they're safe enough. It's a bigger problem that we have in the country that anyone who's any good at ai goes to, you know, the sirens on the shore in silicon valley. All the really top people are working strictly for the commercial market. and so we are not getting good, talented people who are moving into governments at the federal or state level.

Tesla and other automakers have convinced the public that fully automated vehicles are just around the corner. But what if … they aren’t? Dr. Missy Cummings, AI researcher and director of the Humans and Autonomy Laboratory at Duke, joins Adam to detail the massive gap between Silicon Valley's promises and the technology’s limitations, and explain the real benefits that might come when we use AI to enhance human capability rather than replace us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.