At the end of this article is a surprising conclusion that’s clear in retrospect: Neural networks might be more defensible in court than procedural code.
_”With traditional code, you mind discover the cause was a classic old-style bug, like the famous off-by-one error or any other such problem. You will see the cause of the bug (and fix it) but you might now be able to claim that programmer, or the QA process, were negligent in some way.
With a neural network, the is not traditional code. If the network makes an error, we won’t know a lot about why, and so there is less likely to be a particular negligent human or negligent act, unless the court decides the whole idea of using the neural network is negligent.”_
http://ideas.4brad.com/comma-ais-neural-network-car-and-hot-new-technology-robocars
It is deeply embedded in human nature to want to blame someone. People, including courts, are not going to let abstract technical details get in the way of that need 🙂