You are sitting at a table at your favorite techno-savvy coffee shop after watching the boxlike robo-waiter regurgitate your meal - only to realize that it got your order terribly wrong
Who is responsible for this world-ending blunder? Surely you did not enter your order incorrectly on the touch-pad in front of you?
As you watch the robotic waiter trundle from table to table to dispensing more stored orders you realize that it neither knows nor cares that your order was bungled - nor can it be held responsible.
So you grab the un-appetizer and wait in line with the rest of the lunchtime squares for a full five minutes before talking to the sanctioned checkout officer.
He confirms your order as sushi with a side of bacon even though you know you ordered simple cup of coffee so you insist that what you received was incorrect.
The man in an attempt to quickly solve the problem blames 'some programmer' and hastily exchanges your order.Now what if the system in question had more intelligence and still bungled order you muse? And what if you had special dietary requirements and had been killed?
An AI as of now has no rights/responsibilities and therefore could not be held responsible - This means the onus would fall to the same people as would if a standard computer program had stuffed up.
The above is just an example, an entire medical project working with neural networks to diagnose patients got canned. Why? Not because it was inaccurate - it was often more accurate than the doctors. Nay, it was canned because of accountability issues when it did stuff up.
For someone inspiring.
