Benefit, harm, and capability ledgers
Events
Frequency · stacked by domain
Events over time
- Engineering
Heatmap
Domain by month
Significance
Impact tiers
Base impact
- T1 · 1Useful / Limited
- T2 · 3Notable / Significant
- T3 · 10Major
- T4 · 30Historic
- T5 · 100Civilizational / Catastrophic
Base points before attribution, evidence, realization, durability, and credit share.
MethodologyFrequency
Benefit versus harm counts
Waymo publishes lower police-reported crash rates than human benchmarks in rider-only service
Waymo reported that its rider-only Driver logged millions of miles with fewer injury and police-reported crashes than adjusted human baselines in the cities where it operates, in company safety studies released 2023–2024.
Cruise robotaxi hits and drags a pedestrian in San Francisco
On 2 October 2023 a driverless Cruise vehicle struck a pedestrian already hit by a human-driven car, then pulled over and dragged her about 20 feet; California suspended Cruise’s driverless permit and NHTSA later fined incomplete crash reporting.
AlphaChip layouts are used in production Google TPU floorplans
Google’s reinforcement-learning floorplanner, later called AlphaChip, was published in Nature on 9 June 2021 and, Google says, produced layouts taped out in multiple TPU generations. A 2023 ISPD critique disputed the superhuman-performance claims.