Space One's Kairos rocket explodes on inaugural flight

My favorite part of this story:

"The rocket terminated the flight after judging that the achievement of its mission would be difficult."

"Man, this is too hard, better explode!"

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"The rocket terminated the flight after judging that the achievement of its mission would be difficult."

For a second, I thought the UK had a space program. That just sounds extremely British.
the rocket self-destructs when it detects errors in its flight path, speed or control system that could cause a crash that endangers people on the ground

More AI hallucinations?
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Range_safety
  
  Right—the way they’re describing it sounds like they replaced a human range safety officer with an autonomous AI.
Sounds like we had the same programmers. I feel you, Kairos.

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