Founder of The Dawn Project Dan O’Dowd was featured in The Telegraph’s coverage of Anthropic’s claims about its Claude Mythos Model. The Telegraph’s article was published on Friday June 6 and can be read here. No wonder Hollywood is in trouble. The dream factory’s role as our great storyteller and myth-maker has been usurped by artificial…
FOX Business interviews Founder of The Dawn Project Dan O’Dowd about The Dawn Project.
Founder of The Dawn Project Dan O’Dowd analyses Elon Musk’s attempts to shut down NHTSA investigations by culling its staff. Dan’s comments were published in The Register on 11 April 2025, and can be read here. Dan O’Dowd commented: “The car is terrible, it will try to kill you. We’ve written multiple reports to NHTSA…
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The biggest problem with the current generation of Artificial Intelligence is not that it will enslave us, or that the Magnificent 7 will lose trillions of dollars, or that many companies will be distracted by AI hype while competitors that stick to their knitting will obsolete their competitors’ technology. Google has sunk tens of billions…
Passage of the Automated Vehicles Act 2024 in the United Kingdom marks an important milestone in the development of legislation in this area as it rightly places the safety of the public first, rather than allowing technology companies to set their own rules. The act, which places liability for crashes on the manufacturers of self-driving…
The Magnificent Seven, Microsoft, Apple, Nvidia, Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Tesla are adding trillions of dollars to their market caps by stoking the hype machine for Artificial Intelligence. But if we put all the hype aside, we learn that Artificial Intelligence is too stupid to enslave us or take our jobs. Google has sunk tens…
Founder of The Dawn Project Dan O’Dowd examines the dangers of using defective AI in safety-critical systems. The biggest problem with the current generation of Artificial Intelligence is not that it will enslave us, or that the Magnificent 7 will lose trillions of dollars, or that many companies will be distracted by AI hype while…
The advent of artificial intelligence products hitting the market has led many companies, commentators and investors alike to proclaim that we are on the cusp of a new chapter of humanity. The revolutionary technological progress promised by artificial intelligence has been compared with the printing press, the steam engine, electricity, computing and the Internet. However,…
The advent of artificial intelligence products hitting the market has led many companies, commentators and investors alike to proclaim that we are on the cusp of a new chapter of humanity. The revolutionary technological progress promised by artificial intelligence has been compared with the printing press, the steam engine, electricity, computing and the Internet. However,…
Passage of the Automated Vehicles Act 2024 in the United Kingdom marks an important milestone in the development of legislation in this area as it rightly places the safety of the public first, rather than allowing technology companies to set their own rules. The act, which places liability for crashes on the manufacturers of self-driving…
The Dawn Project is campaigning to ban unsafe software from safety critical systems, which could be targeted by military-style hackers to cause chaos to our society, starting with the following key industries: Transportation Healthcare Communications Water treatment plants Power grids With the proliferation of defective artificial intelligence systems across the globe, it is becoming apparent…
Despite the rising popularity of AI platforms, including ChatGPT, Google Gemini and Grok, a number of obvious deficiencies have already been identified, heightening the dangers of AI moguls overzealously praising their potential. The inability of popular Large Language Models (LLMs) to answer simple questions which elementary school students would be expected to answer correctly proves…
The transformative impact of artificial intelligence on conventional warfare is dramatically overstated, and will only serve to guarantee our mutually assured self-destruction. The potential damage of an untrained AI system being given control over a safety-critical instrument with no human to override controls could devastate the world. This is only made more dangerous when AI…
Problems are piling up in Elon Musk’s empire, but the boss is undeterred. Some now see the eccentric multi-billionaire at the top as more of a liability than an asset. Tesla’s “Full Self-Driving” software is immature and extremely dangerous, says O’Dowd. It drives the car “like a drunk teenager.” The billionaire has made this fight his mission.
On Sunday February 11th, 2024 The Dawn Project broadcasted a public safety message during Super Bowl LVIII demonstrating the dangers of Tesla’s self-driving software, highlighting how Tesla has endangered road users by allowing Tesla’s self-driving software to activate on roads where Tesla knows it could not operate safely, resulting in multiple fatalities. The Dawn Project’s…
On Sunday 11 February 2024 The Dawn Project broadcasted a public safety message during Super Bowl LVIII demonstrating the dangers of Tesla’s self-driving software, highlighting how Tesla endangers schoolchildren by failing to address a critical safety defect in its self-driving software whereby Tesla’s self-driving software will overtake stopped school buses. The Dawn Project’s Super Bowl…
Following our first New York Times ad in January 2022, Founder of The Dawn Project, software safety expert Dan O’Dowd, ran for Senate in California in April that year on the single issue of raising awareness surrounding the dangers of Tesla’s Full Self-Driving software, launching a series of campaign ads nationwide to draw attention to…
In the nine months between March 2023 and December 2023 the cumulative miles driven by Full Self-Driving increased by 625 million miles – approximately 833 million miles per year. Full Self-Driving was covering approximately 2,082 miles per customer in this period. Data from the Federal Highway Administration shows that the average American drives 14,263 miles.…
Tesla Autopilot is “intended for use on controlled-access highways”, i.e. freeways, “with a fully attentive driver”, according to Tesla’s owner manual. However, recent tests conducted by The Dawn Project have revealed that Autopilot can be engaged and activated on roads it is not designed to be used on. Video: Tesla Autopilot can be engaged on…
In October 2016, Elon Musk ordered his self-driving team to develop a slick demo video of a self-driving car driving a typical employee commute to Tesla headquarters. In an email, Musk said, “Just want to be absolutely clear that everyone’s top priority is achieving an amazing Autopilot demo drive”. “Since this is a demo, it…
Tesla’s safety statistics are misleading. The company and its CEO, Elon Musk, deploy misleading statistics to claim their self-driving vehicles are safer than human drivers. The reality, however, is far less simple. We simply do not know how safe Tesla’s self-driving software is because Tesla refuses to tell us. In essence, Tesla’s crash statistics misconstrue…
Founder of The Dawn Project Dan O’Dowd has been interviewed by Tesla Motors Club podcast, discussing The Dawn Project’s recent testing of Tesla Full Self-Driving and the critical safety defects these tests have revealed. Dan’s interview was published on 23 October 2023, and can be found here. Dan commented that: “The two biggest threats that…
In 2018, Tesla made the ostensibly transparent step to begin publishing quarterly safety data for its vehicles in order to demonstrate their safety. More recently, it has also released an annual “Impact Report“, which included data on drivers who use their Full Self-Driving (Beta) software. These data made available by Tesla have given a veneer…
Having accepted that Waymo has beaten Tesla to rolling out actual driverless robotaxis, Tesla fanboys have taken refuge in the notion that Tesla Full Self-Driving is better that Waymo’s autonomous driving software because it is able to drive anywhere in North America, while Waymos are geofenced into small areas. They rely upon the argument that…
Omar Qazi is a pathological liar. He will say anything to suppress anyone who won’t toe Elon Musk’s party line. He will have his mob send wave after wave of propaganda against anyone who won’t back down. He is a despicable person, undeserving of respect.
On X.com, Omar Qazi is one of the most prolific and enthusiastic posters about Elon Musk, Tesla, and Musk’s other companies. He often breaks news about upcoming products, features, release dates, and announcements before the press hears about it. The Wall Street Journal named him the person whose tweets Elon Musk most often responds to. …