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I forget the name of the document. But, the US military has a declaration that boils down to "When something goes wrong, blame cannot be shrugged off onto a mac
by corysama 29d ago
I forget the name of the document. But, the US military has a declaration that boils down to "When something goes wrong, blame cannot be shrugged off onto a machine. Somewhere in the chain of responsibility a human will be held accountable." Maybe the operator, the commanding officer, the vendor, maybe even all the way back to a software engineer. But, everyone can't hide behind the machine.
- throwawaysleep 29d agoThe US military seems like an organization where there is very little accountability given all the people they kill in training accidents, the number of procurement mishaps they have, or their continuous inability to pass an audit. So I imagine that if the military is the guidance for how we handle this in the future, there will be paperwork, shrugs, and perhaps some performative rage when an agent commits a crime.
- qznc 29d agoResponsible and accountable can be very different things. For example, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsibility_assignment_matrix https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsibility_assignment_matr...
- jrflowers 28d ago“A computer can never be held accountable” is from an internal IBM presentation
- iAMkenough 28d agoThat was the previous military, before the Hegeseth purge. I've yet to see responsibility taken for the killing of more than 100 innocent school children in the first day of U.S. strikes on Iran.
- verzali 28d agoThis is not talked about enough. It is a terrible stain on America.