TODAY. What’s the connection between the UK Publish Workplace scandal and Soviet Lt. Col. Stanislav Petrov?
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Properly, nothing actually. However we have to keep in mind what Stanislav Petrov did. On September 26, 1983, Petrov, in command of the Soviet Union’s nuclear missile system, acquired the pc display order to “Launch”. The system reported {that a} whole of 5 Minuteman ICBMs had been launched by the USA. Soviet nuclear doctrine known as for a full nuclear retaliation. Petrov needed to make an immediate resolution. However he feared that it was a false alarm. He disobeyed the order.
The end result proved that Petrov was appropriate, and nuclear armageddon was averted.
So, defective expertise brought about a horrible hazard – and one man had the integrity to doubt the digital message, and to behave on his doubt.
Distinction this with the actions of Publish Workplace and Fujitsu authorities who lined up and lied in regards to the defective Horizon IT system. That resulted in 900 false convictions, 4 suicides, and tons of, maybe 1000’s, of lives ruined.
In each circumstances, it was a failure of digital expertise.
Now, as we plunge in to the Age of Synthetic Intelligence, there may be the scary potential for extra digital failures, – and worse, for human error, and even malevolence, in establishing AI programmes.
We want, as by no means earlier than, folks like Stanislav Petrov – folks with the scepticism and the integrity - to not blindly adjust to technocratic wizardry. The very current, and nonetheless ongoing British Publish Workplace scandal is a worrying reminder of the prevailing view about “not rocking the boat”. The boat could also be sinking.
February 1, 2024 –
Posted by Christina Macpherson |
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