AI ethics fuming about the rising hot potato syndrome being employed by AI makers seemingly trying to avoid accountability for their life-deciding autonomous systems
We all know that you are supposed to make sure that you don’t end up with the proverbial hot potato.
The hot potato gambit appears to trace its roots to at least the late 1800s when a parlor game involving lit candles kind of got the ball rolling. People would typically be seated in a series of wooden chairs that were relatively adjacent to each other and play an altogether rousing game in that era. A lit candle would be handed from person to person by the players and represented what we, later on, opted to phrase as handing over a hot potato.