Comment by Kate Crawford

If we look at what's happened in the last 10 years in the tech space, unfortunately we've seen a lot of accountability laundering—which is when companies can say, 'Well, I don't know. I mean, the algorithm did it.' [...] This becomes even more complex in an agent environment where all of those tasks and all of those commitments are actually opaque. [...] Ultimately, [it is] accountability, so that we know if something goes wrong the cost is not going to be borne by the people least able to take that damage. Unverified source (2026)