Who is Responsible?

STABILITY ENGINEERING – Volume 9 www.manhattanproject20.com 1 117-44-D Who Is Responsible? The problem of responsibility in the age of autonomous cognition Introduction One of the oldest questions in law, philosophy, and engineering is deceptively simple: Who is responsible? For centuries, the answer was relatively straightforward because human beings remained at the center of the decision-making process. The emergence of autonomous cognition changes that assumption.