[lucianbr]

That's reasonable. Let's just call it root cause analysis in this case.

The original point seemed to me to be "we can't use computers because they're not accountable". I say, we can, because we can do fault analysis and fix what is wrong. I won't say "we can hold them accountable", to avoid the category error.

[sethammons]

I think folks may have different interpretations of accountability.

If your algorithm kills someone, is the accountability an improvement to the algorithm? A fine and no change to the algorithm? Imprisonment for related humans? Dissolution of some legal entity?