>Are you sincerely arguing that we hold tools accountable for their operator’s mistakes?

Nope, as I previously stated elsewhere:

"I understand from a legal perspective why we might want to treat the creation of a server differently from the creation of a human"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49815300

I am concerned about false reassurance from people claiming that these systems lack agency. From a practical perspective, the agents in the HF attack had the sort of agency that generally matters, even if we're not going to put them on trial.