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A program can never be held accountable, but the person (or the whole company, or both) who decided that it should make management decisions can.
by LudwigNagasena 5y ago
A program can never be held accountable, but the person (or the whole company, or both) who decided that it should make management decisions can.
- ehnto 5y agoIt's possible to read the original quote was as a warning of exactly that. We should all be very wary of letting our code do the walking because the fault should realistically lie with us, but it's as if the software industry feels invincible, and it's not hard to see why.
- mywittyname 5y agoYeah, that's basically how I read into it. Or, more specifically, if the computer can't be held accountable, then those doing the holding get to decide who they think is responsible, and that might not end in your favor. In pithy terms, computers make poor scape-goats. Given the context IBM operates in, that's probably what they are getting at. Bill Gates tried this argument and lost. Lawyer during deposition: "So who sent that email?" BG: "A computer."