> Seems like a similar legal framework could require that decision makers are held accountable for any decisions made by an AI under their control.
If you delegate a decision to an AI, you are simply making the decision while trusting the AI, and should not be any less responsible than if you made the decision by any other means.
(If you are directed by a superior authority to allow an AI to make a decision but are assigned nominal responsibility anyway, though, that superior authority is, in fact, making the decision by delegating to the AI bypassing you, to anticipate the obvious “install a human scapegoat organizationally between the people actually making the decision to use the AI and the AI itself response”.)
> If you are directed by a superior authority to allow an AI to make a decision but are assigned nominal responsibility anyway, though, that superior authority is, in fact, making the decision by delegating to the AI bypassing you, to anticipate the obvious “install a human scapegoat organizationally between the people actually making the decision to use the AI and the AI itself response.
Solution is that company won’t hire you unless you are willing to take the blame and rubber stamp the AI’s decisions. Unemployed people are not in a position to protest.
Also, the point of AI is that the decisions are too complex to justify. They are grey and iffy. We don’t usually hold people accountable for anything that nebulous. Wrongly deny someone insurance coverage and they die? No consequences even without AI
Sadly at the scale of the world, we take shortcuts and need to be effective. As anyone with rare disease will tell you doctors do for ages till they get a proper diagnosis.
If you delegate a decision to an AI, you are simply making the decision while trusting the AI, and should not be any less responsible than if you made the decision by any other means.
(If you are directed by a superior authority to allow an AI to make a decision but are assigned nominal responsibility anyway, though, that superior authority is, in fact, making the decision by delegating to the AI bypassing you, to anticipate the obvious “install a human scapegoat organizationally between the people actually making the decision to use the AI and the AI itself response”.)