Hacker News with Generative AI: Human Error

Citigroup credited client's account with $81T (theguardian.com)
The US bank Citigroup credited a client’s account with $81tn when it meant to send $280 – before the “fat finger” error was caught.

Finance, Banking, Errors, Human Error

13 points by svenfaw 34 days ago | 1 comments

AI Mistakes Are Different from Human Mistakes (schneier.com)
Humans make mistakes all the time. All of us do, every day, in tasks both new and routine. Some of our mistakes are minor and some are catastrophic. Mistakes can break trust with our friends, lose the confidence of our bosses, and sometimes be the difference between life and death.

Artificial Intelligence, Human Error, Psychology

29 points by sorokod 48 days ago | 8 comments

AI Mistakes Are Different from Human Mistakes (schneier.com)
Humans make mistakes all the time. All of us do, every day, in tasks both new and routine. Some of our mistakes are minor and some are catastrophic. Mistakes can break trust with our friends, lose the confidence of our bosses, and sometimes be the difference between life and death.

Artificial Intelligence, Human Error, Ethics

4 points by CharlesW 70 days ago | 0 comments

AI Mistakes Are Different from Human Mistakes (schneier.com)
Humans make mistakes all the time. All of us do, every day, in tasks both new and routine. Some of our mistakes are minor and some are catastrophic. Mistakes can break trust with our friends, lose the confidence of our bosses, and sometimes be the difference between life and death.

Artificial Intelligence, Human Error, Mistakes

6 points by scarface_74 71 days ago | 2 comments

AI Mistakes Are Different from Human Mistakes (schneier.com)
Humans make mistakes all the time. All of us do, every day, in tasks both new and routine. Some of our mistakes are minor and some are catastrophic. Mistakes can break trust with our friends, lose the confidence of our bosses, and sometimes be the difference between life and death.

Artificial Intelligence, Human Error, Mistakes

9 points by mdp2021 72 days ago | 1 comments

AI Mistakes Are Very Different Than Human Mistakes (ieee.org)
Humans make mistakes all the time. All of us do, every day, in tasks both new and routine. Some of our mistakes are minor and some are catastrophic. Mistakes can break trust with our friends, lose the confidence of our bosses, and sometimes be the difference between life and death.

Artificial Intelligence, Human Error, Mistakes

11 points by pseudolus 80 days ago | 0 comments

New Zealand Navy ship sank off Samoa because autopilot was left on, inquiry (theguardian.com)
A series of human errors caused a New Zealand navy ship to plough into a reef off the coast of Samoa, where it caught fire and sank, according to the preliminary findings of a military court of inquiry into the disaster.

Accidents, Human Error, Maritime

21 points by pseudolus 126 days ago | 9 comments

Human error is the weakest link in the cyber security chain (theconversation.com)
Despite huge advances in cyber security, one weakness continues to overshadow all others: human error.

Cybersecurity, Human Error, Security

3 points by gnabgib 161 days ago | 1 comments

Human drivers are to blame for most serious Waymo collisions (understandingai.org)
It’s Autonomy Week! This is the second of five articles exploring the state of the self-driving industry.

Self-Driving Cars, Autonomous Vehicles, Accidents, Human Error

8 points by ra7 204 days ago | 26 comments

B-1B crash result of pilot error and 'culture of noncompliance' (taskandpurpose.com)

Military, Aviation Safety, Human Error

19 points by ilamont 251 days ago | 3 comments

Let's blame the dev who pressed "Deploy" (yieldcode.blog)

Software Development, Humor, Human Error

84 points by skwee357 257 days ago | 112 comments

Programmers should never trust anyone, not even themselves (carbon-steel.github.io)

Programming, Software Development, Security, Trust, Human Error

204 points by kiyanwang 277 days ago | 157 comments

Citi Missed a Fat Finger (bloomberg.com)