Higher ups?

The primate AI is hallucinating after decades of prompt injections.

What obligation do we have to coddle “higher ups” figurative identity?

You are aware that my text is drenching with sarcasm aren't you?

Ultimately business systems operate in a purely consequentialist matter: getting caught only matters because the punishment is bad for the stock price, and avoiding doing crimes is the only 99% reliable procedure for avoiding getting caught.

There is a complicated limbo with things like LIBOR, where practice drifted into quietly rigging the number, first in phone calls and then chat channels, and everybody involved kind of forgot it might not be percieved as legal once the outside world realised what happened. https://www.investopedia.com/terms/l/libor-scandal.asp

Agreed. See Wells Fargo for a real life example although in that case the higher ups made them do crime and then just fired them to scape goat.

Nice thing is that once you are in the club like the banks the worst that happens is a small fine. Crypto hasn't donated to enough politicians yet so they are actually targeted for real punishment at the behest of the enforcement arm of the big banks, the SEC