The murderbots need not love us, so long as they fear us.

At one point, three Waymos were all stalled, seemingly confused:

Selika Josiah Talbott, a transportation mobility policy expert and former federal advisor with decades of leadership shaping autonomous vehicle regulation, finds this sort of behavior shocking and horrifying.

"One of the things that is happening is here is we're teaching artificial intelligence that people are dangerous. We're teaching artificial intelligence that people are harmful, and that's not what we want," said Talbott.

What you mean "we"?

"There was an officer that appeared and eventually sort of shooed everyone to the side so that the vehicle to begin to move," Talbott described. "Even the vehicle's hesitancy as it began to operate again was because of the intrusiveness of humans." [...]

"We need law enforcement to deal with the bad actors who are trying to, whether it's playing games or seriously trying to harm the technology."

Oh no, are they trying to "harm the technology"? Is that related to "criminal contempt of business model"?

Poor widdle wobot, it was feeling "hesitant!" These fratboys might have hurt its widdle wobot uwu twillion-dollar-market-cap feewings.

Humans: an intrusive species in the robot ecosystem. What are we doing on their roads anyway?

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