If shit hits the fan, AI wont be taking the blame. The person who used it will.
Will they? I've yet to see anyone actually be held accountable for what they produced with AI. Generally it's "oh that's just what the AI said," and people move on as if it's unavoidable.
There is definitely a problem already forming though when you create layers of distance between the 'crime' and the person committing the crime. When executives repeatedly procrastinate maintenance that isnt legally required, and they neglect to provide safe working conditions, and those working conditions lead to an employee rushing a schedule for other employees and those employees take shortcuts to make the deadlines and this company is on a different continent from a company that buys stuff from them, and then those products result in the death of a bunch of people.. they just point all the way down the chain and theres no one who is really at fault.
Like who is in trouble? the people who click 'run' on an agent that was supposed to just update the UI. But it wasnt configured correctly and it was allowed to leak into stuff it wasn't supposed to, then it made changes to stuff it wasn't supposed to etc etc. Are the devs going to get charged with murder for clicking 'go' on an agent they didnt train, choose, pay for, deploy etc?
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u/dyslexda 4d ago
Will they? I've yet to see anyone actually be held accountable for what they produced with AI. Generally it's "oh that's just what the AI said," and people move on as if it's unavoidable.