If a chatbot prompt like ‘find Australian medicine statistics’ results in a website breach, the responsibility does not lie with a piece of code

· Crooked Timber · Oct. 4, 2026, 3:22 a.m.
Summary
The blog post discusses the misplaced blame on technology, particularly AI, following security breaches in Australia, highlighting that responsibility should not solely fall on code but rather on systemic failures and human decisions, contrasting with past outages in telecommunications.
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