Yes. That's probably the takeaway here. It's reassuring for anyone making a decision to have someone, or something, to blame after the fact - "they made me do i

Yes. That's probably the takeaway here. It's reassuring for anyone making a decision to have someone, or something, to blame after the fact - "they made me do it!". The study itself is a bit flawed also. I suspect that the test subjects didn't actually believe that they were assassinating someone in a drone strike. If that's true, the stakes weren't real, and the experiment doesn't seem real either. The subjects knew what was going on. Maybe they just wanted to finish the test, get out of the room, and go home and have a cup of tea. Not sure it tells us anything more than people like a defensible "reason" to do what they do; AI, expert opinion, whatever; doesn't matter much.