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"Liability sponge": When algorithms mess up, the nearest human gets the blame

by bnabholz on 5/30/19, 11:25 PM with 3 comments

• by AnimalMuppet on 5/31/19, 12:43 AM

  Do we want to let algorithms be the liability sponge? Do we want humans to say "It's not my fault, blame the algorithm (that I wrote)"?

  The algorithms aren't responsible; humans are (because they wrote the algorithms).