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TalkBook Discussion : Shadow Tyrants by Clive Cussler and Boyd Morrison

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1Andrew-theQM
Aug 12, 2019, 4:55 pm

Any thoughts on the fail safe systems?

2bhabeck
Aug 12, 2019, 5:28 pm

I think the "pause" by Chen was pretty telling. Obviously the fact that they had to disable a portion of the fail safe is now going to be an issue when it comes time to stop the computer. However, the idea of having the fail safes on each ship and disconnected from the network was well thought out but they are still linked to each other and the connection can therefore be compromised or disabled.

3Sergeirocks
Aug 12, 2019, 5:52 pm

If AI is involved, I wouldn't put my trusts in a fail-safe...!

4Olivermagnus
Aug 12, 2019, 8:38 pm

If the artificial intelligence is so smart there's probably no fail safe that's going to be safe enough.

5EadieB
Aug 12, 2019, 8:59 pm

I agree with >4 Olivermagnus:

6Carol420
Aug 13, 2019, 6:43 am

I also agree with >4 Olivermagnus:. I don't think the IA is going to let a little fail safe stop it.