Who Is Responsible When AI Gives Dangerous or Incorrect Advice?

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AI systems can sound confident even when they are mistaken. When people rely on those answers for significant decisions, responsibility becomes difficult to assign: the user, the developer, the platform or the organisation deploying it.

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In healthcare, we use the concept of the 'Moral Crumple Zone.' We put a human doctor in the loop not because the human is better at diagnosing the X-ray than the AI, but because society needs a human to absorb the moral and legal liability when things go wrong (https://estsjournal.org/index.php/ests/article/view/260). The doctor is just a meat-shield for the algorithm. It's deeply unfair to the clinician, who is forced to rubber-stamp AI decisions they don't fully understand, just so the hospita...

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