I was introduced last week to the concept of an “accountability sink”; a structural technique for saying “the rules/tools/processes made me do it” and therefore avoiding accountability. They aren’t universally bad but booooy is AI going to create a lot of them in bad places, like (checks notes) killing civilians. https://kolektiva.social/@danmcquillan/112377379849654399
@luis_in_brief@emaytch Not going to; is. “AI” is already being used to murder innocent civilians with impunity in Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people.
@pchestek yeah, the book is big on black boxes as accountability sinks, and a bad legal department (even pretty much the best legal department in some ways) is very much a black box that can be used that way.
@luis_in_brief Post Office Inquiry is a daily highlight that the combination of bad computers and inept corporate governance makes one hell of an accountability sink.
@tommorris yeah, the post office computers (and the apparent UK rule that computer-generated evidence is to be given a lot of leeway for its evidentiary power?) are a potent accountability sink that (to the book's point) allow, even encourage, the inept governance.
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