“What we’re looking at in the case of some aerodynamic software taking
over for pilots without telling them is an example of why even if you
didn’t think this had anything to do with politics, it is still true
that systems that don’t explain themselves to human beings who
interact with them are dangerous…If we in the 21st century still
believe in human autonomy, then we need to put that value into the
software that runs our world.”

“In the twenty-first century, there will be two kinds of autonomous
systems. There will be autonomous systems made by despotism, most
noticeably by the Chinese Communist Party’s economy and society. And
they will not explain what they are doing because that’s the whole
point: eliminating democracy, freedom of human beings, civil liberty
as ideas. The only alternative to that kind of autonomous system is
whatever we will invent. That is to say it’s a political task from the
part of humanity that believes in freedom to build these technologies
to support rather than to threaten human freedom.”

http://softwarefreedom.org/news/2019/mar/22/npr-boeing/
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