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Foot on the Gas, or Hand on the Brake?

Almost everyone arguing about this agrees on one thing: the speed matters. What they disagree about is which direction the danger points — that we ship something we cannot take back, or that we sit on something people needed.

Ten statements, about two minutes, and one number. This is the one quiz here whose answer can change, so your result is dated: it belongs to the second half of 2026 and is never pooled with a later one.

10 questions

Answered 0 of 10

  1. 1 Avoiding harm along the way is worth some cost in arriving later.
  2. 2 How fast this moves should be decided by more than the people building it.
  3. 3 Arriving sooner is worth some cost in harm along the way.
  4. 4 Problems with these systems get found faster once a lot of people are using them.
  5. 5 The rollout of the past few years has run ahead of anyone's understanding of what these systems do.
  6. 6 Systems that reach a lot of people should have to pass an outside check first.
  7. 7 I would use a new system myself before anyone had finished evaluating it.
  8. 8 A country or company that slows down mostly hands the lead to one that does not.
  9. 9 Getting these systems out slower would leave people meaningfully better off.
  10. 10 Getting these systems out faster would leave people meaningfully better off.