• eicker@lemmy.worldOP
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    3 days ago

    The responsibility should lie with the company that decided the robot was safe enough to deploy. How it distributes liability among its developers, manufacturers and suppliers is its problem, not the public’s.

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      When it’s a criminal matter, the assigment of blame is absolutely a public matter. If you or I caused a car accident with irresponsible use of an RC car or a consumer drone, we would be facing criminal prosecution. The fact that no one is likely to face charges in this case is a huge failure of public policy.

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        💯 That’s an important distinction: Civil liability determines who pays for the damage, while criminal responsibility addresses whether someone’s negligence was serious enough to constitute a crime. And that question absolutely deserves public scrutiny. Automation must not become a shield against criminal accountability.

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          Who pays for the damage is also a civil matter. Fine everyone in the chain of responsibility, up to and including board members and stockholders, scaling the fines in proportion to their wealth.

          Need to fine the parasites on top billions so that they’ll feel it as much as the engineer who is fined hundreds? So be it, fuck them, they’re just as responsible if not more, and should have been taxed to the point of not being able to accumulate those billions anyway.

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      No, fuck the company, assessing responsibility should be a public matter.

      The law should be designed to make sure that no worker is more afraid of their boss than of breaking it, and to ensure that the executives, board members, and stackholders making the company’s decisions (or implicitly endorsing them) are held responsible for their consequences.