Artificial Intelligences and Responsibility.

MIT Technology Review has a meandering article, "A.I Can Be Made Legally Responsible for It's Decisions". In it's own way, it tries to chart the territories of trade secrets and corporations, threading a needle that we may actually need to change to adapt to using Artificial Intelligence (AI). One of the things that surprises me in such writing and conversations is not that it revolves around protecting trade secrets – I'm sorry, if you put your self-changing code out there and are willing to take the risk, I see that as part of it – is that it focuses on the decision process. Almost all bad decisions in code I have encountered have come about because the developers were hidden in a silo behind a process that isolated them… sort of like what happens with an AI, only two-fold. If the decision process is flawed, the first thing to be looked at is the source data for the decisions – and in an AI, this can be a daunting task as it builds learning algorithms based on… data.