How computers kill people, or let’s not ‘move fast and break things’

The ‘move fast and break things’ mentality is usually attributed to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.
The ‘move fast and break things’ mentality is usually attributed to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.
The idea that our technological creations may harm, or even murder us has been a theme of fiction from Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel Frankenstein to the 1915 silent film The Golem. Isaac Asimov’s 1942 short story Runaround proposed the oft-quoted First Law of Robotics: a r...

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