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.
The 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.
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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 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.
“A computer can never be held accountable” is from an internal IBM presentation
That 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.
This is not talked about enough.
It is a terrible stain on America.
The 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.
Responsible and accountable can be very different things. For example, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsibility_assignment_matr...