Chapter Twenty. What You Do with This.
Ordinary Judgment in the Right Direction
A pharmacologist at the Food and Drug Administration kept asking one question... where is the
evidence that this is safe?... until the answer mattered. Most of the
decisions that shape how artificial intelligence develops won't be made by researchers or
politicians. They'll be made by people doing their jobs.
In November 1960, a pharmacologist named Frances Kelsey arrived at her
desk at the Food and Drug Administr