[greendestiny]

"boring but safe."

But seriously, the most important part of that sentence 'safe' is absolutely unproven.

[chriswarbo]

I agree. It's like arguing that autonomous weapons systems are better than human-operated because they don't get tired, whilst neglecting to mention that, say, their object detection algorithms can't tell the difference between combatants and civilians.

Autonomous systems, as a technology, are capable of performing better than humans; that doesn't imply that some particular autonomous system (e.g. Tesla's Autopilot) does so right now.