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asdfftoday at 9:33 AM0 repliesview on HN

Imagine you hate mosquitos so you hook up a vulcan autocannon to your front porch and use a computer vision model to track mosquitos and mow them down.

The mail man shows up. Oh no, no more mailman.

How might this look to the court? You were after all only building a bug trap, it did something you did not expect it to do that was really bad. You feel really bad about it and maybe even put a blog post out about what happened. I don't think that matters though. I think they are charging you with manslaughter at the least.