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You could re-imagine it as some tiny, forgotten department inside a sprawling megacorp though.

I remember reading an article about a guy who still technically had a job, an employee number and got paid each month, however due to a HR mishap, he wasn't assigned to any department, did not have a superior and had no tasks assigned. The corporation was large enough that no one noticed.

You could imagine something similar with AI: Suppose that for a project, a fully automated product pipeline was set up like in the article. Then, let's say, some sort of chaotic re-org happened that caused the team to be disbanded. In the end, no one was left who knew about the existence of the pipeline. The pipeline would keep churning out new products, using the infrastructure and resources of the corporation, without anyone feeling responsible for it.