# Making things safe

Bridges, aircraft and medicines are tested and made to fail gently. The same idea of building the check into the system is now applied to software that learns.

Connects to:
- [the AI version](https://mapideas.org/i/h_ai)
- [Löb’s theorem](https://mapideas.org/i/h_lob)
- [Can an AI check its own safety?](https://mapideas.org/i/q_x_ai_check)

Sources:
- [Wikipedia: Safety engineering](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safety_engineering)
- [Wikipedia: AI safety](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_safety)

Source: https://mapideas.org/i/te_safety · open on the map: https://mapideas.org/#te_safety