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Re:Experimental surgery performed by AI-driven surgical robot by ACCount36 on Friday July 25, 2025 @06:06PM (#44689052)
That "accountability" of yours is fucking worthless.

When a Bad Thing happens, you can get someone burned at the stake for it - or you can fix the system so that it doesn't happen again.

AI tech stops you from burning someone at the stake. It doesn't stop you from enacting systematic change.

It's actually easier to change AI systems than it is to change human systems. You can literally design a bunch of tests for the AI that expose the failure mode, make sure the new version passes them all with flying colors, and then deploy that updated AI to the entire fleet.

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Re:Experimental surgery performed by AI-driven surgical robot by wizzwizz4 on Friday July 25, 2025 @07:13PM (#44689627)
> or you can fix the system so that it doesn't happen again

Or you can not fix the system, because nobody's accountable for the system so it's nobody's job to fix the system, and everyone kinda wants it to be fixed but it's not their job, yaknow?

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Re:Experimental surgery performed by AI-driven surgical robot by johnnienaked on Friday July 25, 2025 @07:12PM (#44689617)
If you say so
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Re:Experimental surgery performed by AI-driven surgical robot by jaennaet on Friday July 25, 2025 @09:04PM (#44690363)
You see, accountability is useless because when nobody is accountable, someone will just literally design a bunch of tests for the AI
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