AI may become a “Sabbath elevator” that quietly shifts responsibility away from humans
lpachter · x · 2026-07-25
The poster argues that people may end up treating AI the way a “Sabbath elevator” works: it keeps stopping for you, which gradually absolves humans of responsibility.
The comment is a reaction to a question about whether someone should be rewarded for extracting a correct proof from a model if they did no additional intellectual work—and what happens if the model’s answer is wrong.
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