[wolverine876]

People will (and I'm sure do) use this magical thinking politically, persuading people to trust the computer and therefore, unwittingly, trust the persons who control the computer. That, to me, is the greatest threat - it is an obvious way to grab power, and most people I know don't even question it. It's a major consequence of mass public surveillance.

[heavyset_go]

Bureaucracies would love for a blackbox to delegate all of their decisions and responsibilities to in an effort to shift liability away from themselves.

You can't be liable for anything, you were just doing what the computer told you to do, and computers aren't fallible like people are.