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“A computer can never be held accountable” is from an internal IBM presentation

That was the previous military, before the Hegeseth purge.

I've yet to see responsibility taken for the killing of more than 100 innocent school children in the first day of U.S. strikes on Iran.

This is not talked about enough.

It is a terrible stain on America.

The US military seems like an organization where there is very little accountability given all the people they kill in training accidents, the number of procurement mishaps they have, or their continuous inability to pass an audit.

So I imagine that if the military is the guidance for how we handle this in the future, there will be paperwork, shrugs, and perhaps some performative rage when an agent commits a crime.

Responsible and accountable can be very different things. For example, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsibility_assignment_matr...