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Algorithms preventing bad things? That was the whole premise of Minority Report, wasn't it?


No, Minority Report had psychics (the title comes from having 3 of them, so when one of them sees something different than the other 2, there is a "Minority Report").


Is 3 psychics really different than 3 algorithms? Safety critical software does get implemented sometimes in 2 different ways to cross-check sanity at runtime. Which does of course come up with issues like which side to trust and what to do if they disagree.




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