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In 1979, IBM stated that since a computer can never be held accountable, a computer must never make a management decision.
Our society now operates on the exact opposite principle, that computers (AI) should make managment decisions precisely because they can never be held accountable, thus shielding the people behind the decisions from accountability and consequence.
I think a key usage of AI is what I call "responsibility laundering", that is, converting "dirty" dishonest mistakes into "clean" honest mistakes.
Previously, if you half-arsed a decision or task because you're lazy or incompetent and it turned out badly, you'd be blamed for the mistake.
But now, if you run the decision or task through AI and it goes badly, you can blame the AI and it will be seen as by most people as an honest mistake (with you as the innocent victim of an AI's failure).