With great power comes great responsibility
summary
Examines concrete failures and concrete fixes: a radiation therapy machine that leaves a beam active causing three dead and UX checks missing, a social network privacy choice that drives women away, and a domestic‑violence triage model with a 95% acceptance rate that suppresses overrides. Shows the actual bugs, the race condition and missing interlocks, the data and incentive failures, and practical methods — system/actor/target brainstorming, detection and response plans, when to escalate, and what a safety‑first launch process looks like.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Opening keynote
- 1:06Real-world consequences
- 3:53Product vs safety engineering
- 5:57System failures and successes
- 10:31Therac-25 case study
- 14:24Google Plus failures
- 17:15Domestic violence risk assessment
- 21:10Building safety culture
- 26:44Safety is everyone's job
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