This also does not bode well for the future.
"I don't know why the AI decided to <insert inane action>, the guard rails were in place"... company absolves of all responsibility.
Use your imagination now to <insert inane action> and change that to <distressing, harmful action>
This already happens every single time when there is a security breach and private information is lost.
We take your privacy and security very seriously. There is no evidence that your data has been misused. Out of an abundance of caution… We remain committed to... will continue to work tirelessly to earn ... restore your trust ... confidence.
Unfortunately, the market seems to have produced horrors by way of naturally thinking agents, instead. I wish that, for all these years of prehistoric wretchedness, we would have had AI to blame. Many more years in the muck, it seems.
Change this to "smash into a barricade" and that's why I'm not riding in a self-driving vehicle. They get to absolve themselves of responsibility and I sure as hell can't outspend those giants in court.
This has been the past and present for a long at this point. "Sorry there's nothing we can do, the system won't let me."
Also see Weapons of Math Destruction [0].
[0]: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/241363/weapons-of-m...