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Serious question, what's the ethical limit on AI decision making?
I run a small logistics company and a few months ago I hit a number that surprised me: our AI system made 1,247 automated routing decisions in a single week without any human input. That's over 170 per day, stuff like rerouting trucks around traffic or choosing which warehouse to send inventory from. On one hand, it saves my guys hours of manual work and we cut fuel costs by 12%. But then a truck got sent to a closed road last Tuesday because the AI didn't catch a last minute construction update. No one got hurt but a customer's delivery was late and they chewed me out. So here's the debate: is it okay to let AI handle that volume of decisions where a mistake means a real consequence for a real person? Or should there be a hard cap per day or per type of decision? Has anyone else had to draw a line on how much autonomy you give your automation tools?
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piper_burns2d ago
Did you set any failsafe rules before letting it run that many decisions on its own? That closed road thing is exactly why I think any AI routing system needs a hard stop when it hits something like a road closure or a weather alert. A daily cap on autonomous decisions would force a human to review the edge cases before they become real problems.
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Man, same thing happened to me last month with rerouting around a bridge closure.
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