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Comment by trio8453

4 days ago

You're conflating legal/moral responsibility with the question of what language is appropriate to use.

Are you proposing separating responsibility from the language used to talk about responsibility? That's novel.

  • It's not novel at all, we do it all the time. It's very common to say "program X did Y" without making the conversation about blame or responsibility. But when the program is an AI agent suddenly using it as a subject of a sentence and saying that "agents did X" becomes a sensitive topic for some people.