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I am trying to get an exhaustive and chronological list of accidents where humans have been killed by AI powered machines. Is there any good reference on this topic? I would expect something more substantial on the topic of singularity evidences. Are Uber and Tesla the only two companies which have such record?

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I would advise a very prudent approach to this type of question. The two companies did not use an "AI" (in the sense of a noun, an artificially intelligent entity) nor did an "AI" cause deaths of humans. They have utilized amalgamation of many artificially intelligent techniques (e.g. neural network). If the sole focus is on the dangers and the risk of using AI because of a few deaths (and, in the case of Tesla, the vehicle was not at fault. A very injudicious person has decided to walk across a highway where no stoplights or boardwalks could've legally protected the person), then please reconsider your focus to more intelligent and insightful question, instead of provocation.

"nor did an "AI" cause deaths of humans": Really? In the case of Uber: I can see clearly a man (woman?) absorbed in his cell phone before the crash. What else was powering that lane detection system? As for Tesla, the autopilot is not qualifying as AI then what else is these days?

I'm unsure if you're very absorbed into classifying AI as a hostile system that you're missing the speciousness in your own self..

"I can see clearly a man (woman?) absorbed in his cell phone before the crash"

So.. regardless of the fact that a human being has caused his own demise, you want to blame "AI" because..? How is an autopilot an "AI"? Planes are stabilized using autopilots so why are you targeting cars over planes?

What are you trying to do and what is your point?

Look.. this is becoming so silly now. If you're fighting for the sake of humans and mitigate traffic accidents, then you should research and fight against drunk driving. Stop trying to attack the wrong cause `just because` you have no clue and feel justified.

I don't think that either Tesla's or Uber's self-driving systems are powered by what passes for AI today...did you mean "algorithms"?

Also, "singularity" is more of an article of faith than something we would realistically live in ;)

Interesting viewpoint. If you look at today's AI landscape, ML/NN seems to be the way researchers are going about implementing specialized AI (with algorithms of course, what else?) ML is a subbranch of AI, and I am not saying ML == general AI. So I am still thinking Uber and Tesla vehicles can qualify as what we can define today as AI-powered autonomous vehicles.

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