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When AI goes awry

When a self-driving car killed 49 - year old Elaine Herzberg in Arizona in 2018, the US National Transportation Safety Board concluded in its report that “the system design did not include a consideration for jaywalking”.

The car’s complex computer system, in effect, lived in an alternative reality – a formal numerical model of

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