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I'm sure plenty of people would but that isn't the point. If you're writing code that potentially costs people their lives, you need to be able to be held accountable otherwise it will lead to negligence. This isn't a new problem... maybe for the software space, but not for industry as a whole.


Humans don't suddenly become perfect actors just because incentives align. The stress of that risk and efforts taken to mitigate it seems like it would actually make the software worse.

It's up to the product (the collective of individuals that deliver the product) to address and mitigate the risk it creates, that's not solely on the shoulders of individual software contributors.

If A writes a generic computer vision algorithm and open sources it, B integrates that into a "is this a bomb or not" product with a white paper outlining its failure rate in a specific situation, then C sells that product to D who uses it in an entirely different situation and E gets blown up... who gets sued? It definitely should be somebody, there should certainly be a liability and incentive to avoid such a liability but I it probably lies somewhere in C-D space, not A-B space.




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