alt Hacker NewsLoved that section about "meat shields". LLMs cannot be held accountable. Someone needs to be involved in decision making, with real stakes if those decisions are bad.
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buildbot • today at 3:24 PM
It just makes logical sense really; the human using the tool is in the end responsible.
Whether the tool is too powerful or ethical to use is an orthogonal discussion, in my opinion. Taken to the extreme, nuclear weapons still need someone fire or drop them. (We should still have discussions on safety and ethics always!)
jppope • today at 3:15 PM
the name is very sticky too. I can't imagine not calling people taking the blame meat shields now
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tinkelenberg • today at 5:45 PM
Reminds me of Succession when the next CEO of Waystar Royco was described as a “pain sponge.”
Data & Society put out a paper on this role back in 2019 but used the term "moral crumple zones" since they were focusing on how to assign blame in autonomous vehicle crashes: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/351054898_Moral_Cru...
"Meat shields" has a nice physicality to it, though