>Some human still has to be accountable. Someone has to get fired / go to jail when something screws up.

Why? The logic of ever less personal pride, involvement, and care, is eventually to just put the blame on AI and be done with it.

Issues? Casualties? It's a bug, somebody fixes it and we move on. Or is just a cost we need to get used to to live in the great new world of AI.

We're in an era where nobody involved goes to jail for the Epstein case, and the world keeps turning, and we think people will care if nobody goes to jail if somebody loses their pension or gets wrongly imprisoned or dies on an operating table because of AI mistake?

If anything, legal, union and other limitations like that on who gets to decide (having to have a human ultimately responsible) might be torn down, to fullu embrace the blame-shifting capabilities of the digital bureucracy.