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1. banubis · 1790105550 · focus · HN ↗

   The pentagon says it was Palantir software’s fault, Palantir says it was the fault of bad data input to their software. Where’s the accountability by both organizations? How did we get to a world where military decisions leading to innocent deaths are responded to as if it was just another miscommunication implementing a B2B SaaS platform.

   1. augment_me · 1790106828 · focus · HN ↗

      The new world is complex and AI technology has outpaced the regulation cycle, so it's inevitable that we come to a place where you don't have accountability and can never have it because 0) the courts can't handle the case, they don't have the frameworks for it, so it takes longer time 1) you can overload the courts with slop, 2) by the time there is a decision the world has moved on and technology has moved on

      Really good time to do various crime.

      1. croon · 1790108336 · focus · HN ↗

         I disagree with this framing. Nothing in accountability has really changed other than our willingness to enforce it.

         Replace "AI" with any other tool or software in your scenario, and the outcome is the same. The same people and organizations are accountable, it's just that we currently live in a world without accountability in the highest places where it's most needed, and that's unrelated to AI.

         1. forshaper · 1790112038 · focus · HN ↗

            Yeah, all this was going on decades before AI.

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