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Artificial Intelligence / Unit 10   AI 0602 short lesson, about 20 seconds

"The Machine Did It, So No One Is Responsible"

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The idea

The responsibility gap is an allocation difficulty, not an allocation impossibility — every element of a deployed system's behavior traces to decisions by people.

In practice

What pile, what objective, what testing, what oversight, what fallback — each a named choice with a named owner.

Where people slip

As a failure mode the gap is real; as an excuse it is the many-hands trick with a computational accent.

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