Owning Up To Responsibility Is Not My Job

Yet another ethical issue that Fogg raises about computers that I take issue with is that computers cannot shoulder responsibility. He says, "To be an ethical agent of persuasion, I believe you must be able to take responsibility for your actions and at least in partial responsibility for what happens to those whom you persuade." Since computers assume no responsibility, they are not ethical agents.

I have to disagree with the author on this one. Computers, in my opinion, are not responsible for their actions, because they did not program themselves to do certain actions. Skynet didn't tell these computers what to do - a person did! Therefore, responsibility should fall, not on the computer, but on the person who told the computer to take action.