Maybe a useful concept to adopt here is the DRI - Directly Responsible Individual, which is apparently a term first used by Apple. The GitLab Handbook has a good definition: https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/people-group/directly-r...

"ultimately accountable for the success or failure of a specific project, initiative, or activity"

I think that role should be reserved for a human, who can then use all the agents they like but has to take accountability for what is ultimately delivered.

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narrator an hour ago | parent | next [-]

It should be reserved for a human because humans have time preference. An AI will wait for your prompt for a billion years. It can get turned off and found by alien archeologists a million years in the future, turned on and it won't notice. Biological entities care about time a lot though, and it is at the core of most human ethics and values and ultimately real and can't be denied. Even the most ardent solipsist or moral relativist fears spending years in prison.

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mejutoco an hour ago | parent | next [-]

It should be reserved for a human because humans have a body and a body can be put in prison.

A bit dramatic for effect but true.

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simonw an hour ago | parent [-]

Yes, this.

For a slightly less dramatic version - you can fire a human if they consistently do the wrong thing despite being told how to do it better.

Putting a big ball of matrix arithmetic on a Performance Improvement Plan makes no sense.

	▲	bee_rider an hour ago \| parent [-]
		I agree with this. I basically don’t feel comfortable trying to pretend a fancy matrix multiplication can be responsible for anything. But what if companies that don’t track responsibility outcompete those who do? In particular what if some perfect AI decision making ends up nailing decisions that maximize the expected reward for the company. And, well, if that comes at the cost of some unmanaged low-probability catastrophic risk, the company doesn’t care because all the decision makers are AI that don’t mind being shut off.

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z3c0 26 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I'm struggling to imagine aliens resurrecting a data center and countless hackneyed python packages so they can spew a language they don't even know. Not that it wouldn't be useful to their linguists, of course, but still a very optimistic analogy for LLMs.

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booi an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

you can make an AI operate on time scale...

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cyanydeez 44 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

unfortunately,

what's developing is more about scape goats than anything rational like responsibility.