A robotaxi may take you to your destination, but you know what it can’t do? Close its own door. In Atlanta, a Waymo called a DoorDasher to come to its aid.

An autonomous service. Until it isn’t.

New piece on how humans are being turned into on-call stabilisation hardware for “smart” systems:

https://medium.com/@Diogo_Mendes/meatspace-8ab3cc96b0c7

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How autonomous systems treat human workers as peripherals

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