Don’t blame AI for the Iran school bombing

Anthony Lawton and Dr Felicity Mellor on the importance of humans who design systems and execute decisions taking responsibility for them Your article on the Iran school bombing rightly challenges the reflex to blame artificial intelligence ( AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is far worrying, 26 March ). However, the deeper problem lies not in the technology but in the language now forming around it. To say that there was an “AI error” quietly removes the human subject from the sentence.