It's an attempt to justify recklessness. If you know exactly what your machine is going to do, you are responsible for what your machine does. This is why you

It's an attempt to justify recklessness. If you know exactly what your machine is going to do, you are responsible for what your machine does. This is why you can have web services. If you don't know exactly what your machine is going to do, you are unleashing a dangerous machine on an unwitting population of human beings, and that's reckless. This probably is relevant to the financial sector. Engaging in a digital arms race, and then claiming the machine is responsible for your lost retirement money. We are so enthralled with technology that we're willing to spend large parts of our lives engaging with it. That's like a teenager loving their bo, damn the consequences. Now we've come to trust large amounts of other people's money to a digital contest. Betting large amounts of money on a contest is just that: a bet. Maybe we should stop and think about whether betting retirement money in a global AI contest is a good idea. Sure, you can make the argument that gambling is legal in many jurisdictions, but even then you have to remember that the house always wins.