Responsibility v Liability

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Homo sapiens has tried to regulate social life through different kinds of systems since the dawn of civilization. One striking example is Göbeklitepe, recently discovered in Turkey, which is believed to have been a religious gathering site used by tribes around 10,000 years ago. Our need to regulate social life goes further back than we imagine.
We have enforced these forms of regulation through religion, social norms, and philosophy in order to create a better life. Do not kill. Do not lie.
These are not only rules. They are attempts to make peaceful life in society possible.
But as societies became more complex, stories of Gods and moral commandments no longer seemed to be enough. We created institutions, legal systems, and many additional layers that defined responsibility more precisely and, eventually, transformed much of it into liability.
That is exactly what I want to discuss today:
Responsibility vs. Liability and Everything in Between

1. What is the difference between Responsibility and Liability?

2. Responsibility and Morality
Let us be honest: nobody really wants responsibility. And yet responsibility is supposed to be one of the things that makes social life possible; then why do we try to avoid it.

If we are all trying to escape responsibility, then is morality really meaningful to human beings?
Or was it never as solid as we imagined?

3. When liability is in place do we still need responsibility?
As systems become more complex, we begin to doubt human judgment. We do not fully trust people to act morally on their own. So liability enters as another solution.

4. Responsibility and Capacity of Judgement.
Can we trust human beings to apply moral judgment in a complex society?

5. Do modern laws and liability systems weaken our capacity for moral judgment, or do they protect us from the limits of human judgment?

6.The Loss of Shared Moral Traditions
Religious belief weakens.
Community pressure weakens.
The trust in higher judgment weakens.
What happens to morality when we lose our connection to shared moral traditions?

7. When laws and institutions are unjust, is it our responsibility to break them?

8. Liability and AI :) You like it or not. It is here.
Can moral judgment be programmed?
Should an AI system be designed around responsibility or around liability?
Do we want AI to make moral decisions, or only optimized decisions?

9. When institutions make decisions that sacrifice some lives to save others, who carries the moral responsibility for that choice?

10. Do modern people still see themselves as morally responsible agents, or do they increasingly understand themselves only as participants in systems of risk, compliance, and accountability?