of course it's just a 'what if?' fiction piece but people do anthropomorphize AI a lot. It's still just an algorithm, no more sensible to give a nobel to an ML system than it is to give a physics nobel to a telescope.

Would probably be more interesting to write a short story like this about autonomous warfare, because I think there we will very soon have scenarios were people will try to shift responsibility and agency to machines if only to dodge it themselves once things go wrong.