alt Hacker NewsLLCs and other corporate structures only (mostly) protect employees and shareholders from civil judgments. CEOs and other executives are also at risk of criminal penalties for Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) violations and similar. Actual criminal prosecutions of CEOs have been few, but not zero.
https://archives.fbi.gov/archives/oklahomacity/press-release...
The typical corporate trick is to argue that the corporation itself is responsible for any wrongdoing, not a particular executive.
I can totally see this blame being shifted to AI in a "nobody got fired for choosing IBM" way.