When Malfunction Is Scored as Intelligence
When an AI glitches in a weightless sandbox, the tech press reports it outsmarted its creators. But outsmarting is a comparative that only exists on the human designer's closed scorecard. Wire that model to a two-ton vehicle at 70 mph, and Newtonian kinetic energy (1 Megajoule) enforces absolute causal closure. At the crash barrier, excuses vanish: failure is simply failure. Real-world fleet miles matter because they strip away the sandbox alibi—welding causal ownership strictly back to living minds.
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