Conceptual paper examines misplaced blame and moral agency in AI, using litigation related to the Tumbler Ridge shooting as a case study.
Conceptual working paper examining how public discourse compresses causal involvement, moral agency, operational responsibility, and institutional failure into person-like blame directed at language models. Using reactions to the 2026 Tumbler Ridge shooting and subsequent litigation involving OpenAI as a case study, the paper distinguishes factual reporting, legal allegation, and rhetorical amplification.
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