Early 2023, a weird thought crossed my mind. Everyone was pondering on how AI would affect the tertiary job market, and there was already a soft consensus around the idea that those systems shouldn’t be left running unattended; that their maximum utility could only be attained under human supervision. I wondered then if there was anything computers wouldn’t be able to do for us in the future, and eventually it hit me. The reason why we would always need human supervision is not because machines make mistakes, but because when they do, we need someone to be held accountable. The one job computers and androids can never take away from us is taking the fall.
This essay was published on VentureBeat on December 19, 2021.
Smart people in my industry have noted the growing role of cyberspace in inter-state conflicts and called for the development of cooperative, global regulation and governance. There are a few ethical dilemmas that this raises, including one that not much has been written about: the morality of cyberattacks.
