Agreed. The moment we allow AI to take the blame for irresponsible decisions made by the humans who designed and maintain said AI, is the moment we stop holding people accountable for real damage done.

Account lockouts are bad enough, but more serious things driven by AI are bound to reveal their fallibility. I sincerely hope tech workers have the integrity to take responsibility, judging by the current political climate and its participants' willingness to venture into thinking (surrounding the value of human life, among other things) that was considered taboo not long ago.

The moral and practical capacities of AI will reflect the limits of those designing them, at best.

Some time ago I used to run a userscript which replaced all occurrences of "Artificial Intelligence" and "AI" with "Artificial Idiocy". Added some charm to buzzword-heavy press releases :D.

Or “Artificial Incompetence”

This is an incredibly harsh and naive take. Authenticating logins at scale is an incredibly hard problem. There are tons of phishing campaigns and attackers seeking to get access to Google accounts all the time.

That they sometimes get it wrong sucks, but calling their attempts to do so "actual stupidity" is pretty rude.