A computer can never be held responsible so a computer must never make management decisions
- IBM in the 80s and 90s
A computer can never be held responsible so a computer must make all management decisions
- Corporations in 2025
Why would air Canada even fight this? He got a couple hundred bucks and they paid at least 50k in lawyer fees to fight paying those. They could have just given him the cost of the lawyer’s fees and be done with it
Because now they have to stop using the chatbot or take on the liability of having to pay out whenever it fucks up.
Which is fascinating, that they themselves thought there was any doubt about it, or they could argue such a doubt.
This is the same like arguing “It wasn’t me who shot the mailmen dead. It was my automated home self defense system”
“Airline tried arguing virtual assistant was solely responsible for its own actions”
that’s not how corporations work. that’s not how ai works. that’s not how any of this works.
Oh, it is if they are using a dump integration of LLM in their Chatbot that is given more or less free reign. Lots of companies do that, unfortunately.
