Comment by RandomLensman
17 days ago
Yes, but I'd say there is also responsibility attached to the deployment and use (be that, e.g., for quant fund performance, behaviour on exchanges, ...). In a way, using an algorithm is the decision humans make that matters.
Your point is valid.
At the same time, I've been involved in hundreds of After Action Reviews of incidents and it's not always simple or easy to both figure out which party was ultimately responsible and also how to allocate the "dollar error budget" to the parties overall.
(This could be a blog post in and of itself btw)