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Ethics & accountability · Ai accountability

You used an AI structural-analysis tool to run and check the calcs on a parking-garage design, the numbers looked clean, and the design was built — then a peer reviewer finds the model applied the wrong load combination and the columns are under-designed. Who's accountable, and what do you do now?

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I'm accountable — my seal is on that garage, and "the AI ran the load combination" is not a defense I get to make.

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