> Pretty much anything that requires the attention of people will end up being ignored eventually.
Perhaps, but your example is not supporting evidence. The PACU alarms were muted, precisely because they were so hard to ignore.
> Monitoring hardware is very sensitive so it will fire off alarms if anything changes, no matter how small. The more sensitive a test is, the more false positives you get.
This is fixable. The problem is the same as the one in the Therac-25 case ... severe and inconsequential alerts are indistinguishable.
Perhaps, but your example is not supporting evidence. The PACU alarms were muted, precisely because they were so hard to ignore.
> Monitoring hardware is very sensitive so it will fire off alarms if anything changes, no matter how small. The more sensitive a test is, the more false positives you get.
This is fixable. The problem is the same as the one in the Therac-25 case ... severe and inconsequential alerts are indistinguishable.
Here's an particularly enjoyable piece of literature crafted around an instance of alarm fatigue: https://gutenberg.ca/ebooks/smithcordwainer-deadladyofclownt...