Thread

Pentagon says overreliance on AI contributed to missile strike on Iran school

974 points · 553 comments · devonnull

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. rossng · 1790120159 · focus · HN ↗
  You might be interested in Dan Davies' book The Unaccountability Machine[1].
  It talks a fair bit about 'accountability sinks', which are exactly these systems that (intentionally or not) essentially serve as a way to unlink responsibility from any given person and allow 'the system' to be blamed instead.
  [1] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unaccountability_Machine" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unaccountability_Machine

Unofficial Hacker News client; not affiliated with Y Combinator.