To stop people from making illegal decisions ahead of time, and not just to punish them after. If there is no accountability to an AI, then a person making a killer robot would have no reason to not make a killer robot. If they were more to be imprisoned for making a killer robot, then they would be less likely to make a killer robot.
In a world without accountability, how do you stop evil people from doing evil things with AI as they want?
In a world without accountability, how do you stop evil people from doing evil things with AI as they want?