Because in the long run it is faster than humans, it scales better than humans, and is less expensive than humans.
Doesn't mean there aren't legitimate questions (ethical and otherwise) and constraints that should be put on it. But for now, the underlying drivers for continuing down this path are pretty straightforward and compelling.
Im looking at it from another angle. Remember the Fake Parts from China that downed a lot of our military aircraft? This chips were also put into our cars. I found this out when my car was hacked into while i was driving it. They even shifted the gears on me.
How easy is it to hack into computers?
How easy is it to know cost chips?
What happens then?
Extremely good point. The answer to that should be part of the constraints that I mentioned.
We farm out WAY too many key components of our industry, grid, security, etc to supply chains that we don't fully control. That's an enormous risk to our national security, and also been one of Trump's call-outs since the 80s.
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