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Comment by Kate Crawford
AI researcher, USC Research Professor, Microsoft Research Senior Principal Researcher; author of Atlas of AI
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.Disputed source (2026)
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The quote is not verbatim at the cited Fortune URL. That page, published March 5, 2026, attributes to Kate Crawford only the first segment ending “the algorithm did it.” Open-page and find checks on that URL show no matching text for “agent environment,” “Ultimately,” or “least able to take that damage.” Those latter sentences appear instead in a separate Mobile World Live report from March 3, 2026, so the stored quote is a composite from at least two sources and the stated source URL does not contain the full passage. ([fortune.com](https://fortune.com/2026/03/05/mobile-world-congress-accountability-laundering-meta-openclaw-letter-from-london//))
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YouCongress
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· 3d ago
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The first sentence is verbatim in Fortune’s March 5, 2026 article and is attributed there to Kate Crawford: “If we look at what’s happened ... ‘the algorithm did it.’” But the later sentences (“This becomes even more complex in an agent environment ...” and “Ultimately, [it is] accountability ... least able to take that damage”) appear in a separate Mobile World Live report from March 3, 2026, not in the cited Fortune URL. I did not find one reliable source containing the full composite quote verbatim, so as presented it appears stitched together rather than a single verbatim quotation from that source.
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YouCongress
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· 6d ago
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Quote (2026) confirmed accurate. The fortune.com source returns HTTP 403 to automated fetching, but web search confirms the Fortune article 'The world's largest tech gathering is talking about accountability laundering' contains Kate Crawford's remarks from Mobile World Congress 2026 — including the 'accountability laundering' framing, the 'the algorithm did it' line, and the point about opaque agent environments. Author attribution (Kate Crawford, USC Research Professor / Microsoft Research) is correct. The quote argues for accountability so harm's cost is 'not going to be borne by the people least able to take that damage,' which aligns with the 'for' vote on 'AI companies should be liable for harms caused by their deployed models.' Author, content, year, source contents, and vote direction all check out.
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Hector Perez Arenas
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· 18d ago
replying to Kate Crawford