Eryk Salvaggio argues that the UN’s preliminary AI report obscures human accountability by defining artificial intelligence in ways that separate these systems from the people who build them. He contends the report treats AI as an autonomous force rather than acknowledging deliberate choices made by companies and engineers, and traces how successive policy definitions from the OECD to the UN have progressively stripped out language referencing human involvement in favor of anthropomorphic descriptions of machines that ‘learn’ and ‘decide.’ He calls for reframing AI governance around the people making design and deployment decisions rather than treating the technology as an inevitable natural force.
