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Arvind Narayanan

Nice sleuthing by

about a paper that made waves for claiming that Tesla drivers are good at paying attention when on autopilot, and was then scrubbed from the Internet. Silently deleting bogus claims is not good research ethics. garymarcus.substack.com/p/the-cnet-fak

The paper that I have in mind was called The Human Side of Tesla Autopilot; the now famous podcaster Lex Fridman, then a postdoc at MIT, was the lead author. The paper purported to show that Tesla drivers were able to “maintain a relatively high degree of functional vigilance.“ Elon Musk himself took an interest in it, tweeting about it the day after it was announced; Fridman discussed it in his first interview with Musk, a few days later.

And then, despite all that interest, the paper vanished. It was never published in a scientific journal, and never replicated; to my knowledge Fridman has published little if anything on driverless cars since. Fridman himself no longer even lists the paper on his list of publications—it’s gone altogether, as if it never existed. Even finding a PDF is difficult. The website for the paper, which was supposed to have more information, is also gone—replaced by an autogenerated page that says “Coming Soon. This page is not available yet. Stay tuned”, nea

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Rakesh Bhandari

@postdiscipline

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This from Lorraine Daston in her book Rules shows how long-standing the problem of attention is when the tasks left by machines are unchallenging.

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Arvind, Gary, respectfully, the safety stats for Tesla on Autopilot haven't proven out the fears of more driver complacency and the inferred compromise of safety compared to humans. ADAS like Autopilot are proving to be no less safer than humans, with only upside as tech improves

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"nothing suspicious here, move along" ;-)