It doesn't even need to be blaming the engineers in this case, they can blame "the AI" and most people will accept that and let whatever incident happened slide. If somebody questions the wisdom of putting AI in such a position, they can be dismissed as not appreciating new technology (even though their concern is valid.)

Yeah, it is usually not about blaming the engineers in my experience. It is about so they can make a descion they want to make without having to think too hard or take any accountability. If nobody knew at the time it was bad everyone can just act surprised and call it an accident and just go on with their lives making similar uninformed descisions.

In their dream world the engineers would not know about it either.

Edit: Maybe we should call this style vibe management. :D

Yep. AI is wonderful for IP laundering and accountability laundering (is this even a term? It is now!)

"the AI did it" is going to be the new "somebody hacked my facebook account"

I wish I had a way of ensuring culpability remains with the human who published the text, regardless of who/what authored it.

if you're in a regulated field like law or medicine and you fuck up signing some AI slop with your name, you should loose your license at the very least

tools are fine to use, personal responsability is still required. Companies already fuck up with this too much

I think it needs to be a cultural expectation. I don't know how we get there, though.

worse, they can be dismissed as an abstract ”ai is dangerous” and used to justify funnelling money to the various ai safety charlatans

In this case it looks like the executives should fire the OP and hire the 2nd poster who came up with a solution. C'mon lazy executives.