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How do we build software that is safe? Exploration of formula specifications, safety science and algorithm ethics. Header art courtesy of Freepik.com

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Marianne Bellotti
Jul 8, 2022

Why Self Driving Cars Are Not Safe

As long as humans can blame the machine, they will use autonomous features incorrectly.

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Marianne Bellotti
Dec 27, 2020

The Three Levels of Software Safety

The more software eats the world, the more critical safety is … but what exactly does that mean?

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Marianne Bellotti
Sep 13, 2020

A Software Engineer’s Guide to Cybernetics

Before ‘cyber’ was a prefix for everything internet and computers, it was how…

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Marianne Bellotti
Jul 13, 2020

Drift Mapping and Software Design

Computers can’t avoid automating decisions if software engineers can’t figure out what decisions are…

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Marianne Bellotti
Jun 18, 2020

Making AI Better by Making it Slower

The difference between beneficial and destructive AI may be whether making fast thinking faster…

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Marianne Bellotti
May 10, 2020

What Would AI Look Like If We Built It Using System Safety?

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Marianne Bellotti
Mar 25, 2020

The Subtle Power of Booleans

Programming with truth and statefulness.

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Marianne Bellotti
Apr 10, 2019

Using TLA+ to Model Cascading Failures

TLA+is traditionally used to model the algorithms that power distributed systems. However…

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Marianne Bellotti
Jan 17, 2019

Introduction to TLA+ Model Checking in the Command Line

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