> I don’t know what the answer is, but I too believe things won’t change until the day someone figures out how to push a “kill all humans” OTA update to all the self-driving cars on some random Tuesday afternoon.
Even in that case I’m pessimistic that any action will happen. People will go on TV and say grave things, hearings will be held. Fingers will be pointed. Task Forces will kick off. Reports will be written. Bureaucrats will have stern conversations with bureaucrats. Politicians will say: we must this and we shall that. IT companies will sell their “solutions”. But no actual action will happen. It will be all talk and commerce but no actual hands unplugging and plugging in cables. We have completely lost the societal will to actually do anything besides generate words and reports.
You are describing the current world, where politicians dissolve issues. There’s a saying in Europe that no minister of defense was ever nominated. Real ministers of war, when there is war, appoint themselves into position.
When there is a real problem, people act upon it (assuming society is functional - otherwise the country simply dies). That’s why there is no better training for war than war itself. Ukraine has already unrooted all of the peace & love & no armament folklore in France, and even turned a lot of ecologists into pro-nuclear voters.
So yes, I wouldn’t be surprised if guarantees of offline mode (with regular drills) were passed into law for electric cars and everything cloudy, including IntelliJ.
Even in that case I’m pessimistic that any action will happen. People will go on TV and say grave things, hearings will be held. Fingers will be pointed. Task Forces will kick off. Reports will be written. Bureaucrats will have stern conversations with bureaucrats. Politicians will say: we must this and we shall that. IT companies will sell their “solutions”. But no actual action will happen. It will be all talk and commerce but no actual hands unplugging and plugging in cables. We have completely lost the societal will to actually do anything besides generate words and reports.