Eric Maugendre<p>'Three syntactic patterns appear consistently:<br>• Passive constructions, such as “Data shall be retained,” which avoid naming the actor.<br>• Nominalizations, such as “submission,” which replace verbs like “submit” to obscure who acts.<br>• Instruction templates without subjects, such as “Confirm identity before approval,” which issue commands without specifying any agent.</p><p>'Each of these forms is grammatically acceptable and often institutionally adopted. What unites them is that they structurally remove the subject, the speaker, and the agent.</p><p>'Why This Has Consequences</p><p>'Where no one is named, no one is held accountable.<br>[…]<br>'Formality, once a guarantee of procedure, becomes a mask for the absence of responsibility.</p><p>'Documents continue to function. Authority continues to be exercised. Yet no one signs, and no one speaks.'</p><p><a href="https://www.agustinvstartari.com/post/who-gave-the-order-when-ai-issues-commands-without-a-speaker" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">agustinvstartari.com/post/who-</span><span class="invisible">gave-the-order-when-ai-issues-commands-without-a-speaker</span></a> by <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@agustinstartari" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>agustinstartari</span></a></span></p><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/responsibility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>responsibility</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/accountability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>accountability</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/ethics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ethics</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/authority" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>authority</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/technique" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>technique</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/risks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>risks</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/assessment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>assessment</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/algorithms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>algorithms</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/technocriticism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>technocriticism</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/judicialBias" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>judicialBias</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/institutionsDeceive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>institutionsDeceive</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/ethics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ethics</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/justice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>justice</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/publicLaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>publicLaw</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/bias" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bias</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/justiceSystem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>justiceSystem</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/judiciary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>judiciary</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/genAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>genAI</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/generativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>generativeAI</span></a></p>