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Probably things like life support device firmwares, or like Boeing's recent software issue that may have been related to the deaths of those on the 737 max. Any software that has to do with life and death needs a certain high level of perfection to avoid calamity. That's just what I was thinking off the top of my head..
Firmware for embedded devices that don't have a patch mechanism. Has to be right the first time or it's game over.

Device drivers, since the consequences are a kernel panic/BSOD.

AI which is used for making decisions about other peoples life, cant be perfect. For example: A raceist is coding a software for the court or for a prison. Life is more complex like a living beeing under different conditions. Sorry i am german, but not a real german. So i am not sure if you guys understand the way of my thoughts. And different types of software makes no difference in my view. Software can never be perfect, when ethical rules were broken with it. Theres a german philosopher Thomas Metzinger,i think he is right when he is saying: We need a new culture of conciousness, specialy in our technical behaveiour and AI. If i would be a data-scientist who could handle or program an AI, i would maybe ask this guy how to build up a good setup of human mind. Or how to give the AI her own, and on ethical rules based counciousness. For me total noob, an AI would be nice, which could handle my whole OS/Pc. When i say, make a new random profile, Ai is fixing it. Or when is say, send all traffic only trouh one port, hide me, or hide urself. Maybe it is acting like an avatar in the internet. Or he-she-it can act as someone other unknown and not real existing person, and so on. A lot of weird ideas and crazy thoughts. Only because of my little understanding of technical limits. I dont know if this is really possible, i am not a coder. But since i started reading some different articles here, i get a whole new view at some points of our world. People need an AI whos acting like our friend, and not like a spy whos stealing all our data and records all our activities. I know, thats the way our world keeps going on, these days. But it feels a little bit sick. Every word i am writing here, maybe is beeing used to feed an algorithm. Or to try some new AI systems for making predictions, or manipualting my/our behaviour, or whatever. I hope i trust in the good guys here :) If not, anyway. Life goes on till program end.

Seems like there are a lot of different kinds of programmer here. And that the most of them, over the last years, maybe 15-20yrs. Became a own, wider spread culture of conciousness, directly based on ethical rules. And this community-shared-conciousness, is growing more and more togheter. It is only my personell view from outside! I think, maybe because u guys are often directly involved in nearly everything and everywhere. Without you programmers, coders or hackers, scientists and freaks, this world could not, and would not work properly. And you guys here, are already looking forward to make the world a better place, without dollarnotes in the eyes. Wished i could give you back something, but i only have my thoughts, my weird mind and a crazy view at this world. This is i can share with you guys. You see the world in codes, while i see what codes actually can and could do to our world. You know the echnical limits, while i think without limits, because i only see options and possibilities. A weirdo and a programmer/hacker could see different things as the same, or same things totaly different. Theres only a compiler needed, what i think is communication. While u know the code, i only know human language words to share my technical expirience. Sry for long text. But had to say that, to find inner peace. P.s. Boeing will get more trouble i think. It will be based on experimental fuels and their effects to our atmospheric watervapour and transportation, also the reflection and microphysikal effekts in our atmosphere also of uv-radiation. Thats what I read out of different things that happend. By boeing, climate-science, atmospheric-chemical-physic-reactions. Weatherforecast, different things worldwide happens, are often conneted to each other, without knowong of mainstream. I say there is a big lack of data, in the field of experimental-fuels, weatherexperiments and sharing this data to others. Im not a scientist, i am more like an autistic with some special interessts. NASA and DLR are doing Experimental-fuel-reserach. Boeing and rolls royce also. Then they mixed their science. Climatcontrol with aviation exhaust. Cooling or warming with diffrent kind of contrails. Maybe im going to die, for what i am saying now. But people are totaly naive if they really think only the carindustry can manipulate their exhaust. I maybe dont know coding, but i know how single humans can act, and which trouble can come up for whole world, only from one human. And when i take a look back now, what happend the last years, and think about some corelations, there will be some heavy news about our climate in nearest future. I hope i am not right.