alt Hacker NewsThis is how it will go: AI prompted by human creates something useful? Human will try to take credit. AI wrecks something: human will blame AI.
It's externalization on the personal level, the money and the glory is for you, the misery for the rest of the world.
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Time for everyone to read (or re-read) The Unaccountability Machine by Dan Davies.
tl;dr this is exactly what will happen because businesses already do everything they can to create accountability sinks.
When a corporate does something good, a lot of executives and people inside will go and claim credit and will demand/take bounces.
If something bad happened against any laws, even if someone got killed, we don't see them in jail.
I don't defend both positions, I am just saying that is not far from how the current legal framework works.
"I would like to personally blame Jesus Christ for making us lose that football game"
So, management basically?
To be fair, one doesn't need AI to attempt to avoid responsibility and accept undue credit. It's just narcissism; meaning, those who've learned to reject such thinking will simply do so (generally, in abstract), with or without AI.
Agreed, but I'm not nearly so worried about people blaming their bad behavior on rogue AIs as I am about corporations doing it...