Despite the debate, limited research has focused on the impact these interfaces have on how people ascribe responsibility to computing technology.
As just noted, the open-ended character of research and innovation makes it virtually impossible to ascribe responsibility to an unknown event in this specific sense.
But we might want to loosen things up here a bit and suggest that collective responsibility is the basis upon which we ascribe responsibility to individual group members for harm that the group itself caused.
While the above writers, who find collective responsibility to be a compelling moral construct in general, differ in particular respects, they all agree that it would be wrong to ascribe responsibility to dissenters or, in other words, that if one tries to fight harm one should not be held responsible for it.
"It is therefore wholly inaccurate and unfair to seek to ascribe responsibility to me for matters of concern that occurred long after I left the Agency". But Keith Vaz, the committee's chairman, told the BBC: "We are very surprised that given the background she was put in charge of this organisation [the HMRC].
This is is sometimes true; however, with an identity as systemically privileged as being Christian is in the U.S. and with the gravity of historical nonsense perpetuated in the name of Jesus, it is not enough to simply ascribe responsibility to individuals in the same way it wouldn't be helpful to focus on individual white people in dismantling systemic racism.
Please do not ascribe responsibility to my colleagues, who read this letter in manuscript form, or to EHP's editorial office.
But after years of being held at the military prison without charge, Defense Department officials recently said that he was in fact a low-level foot soldier to whom they had mistakenly ascribed responsibility for the actions of others whose names or aliases were similar to his own.
A recent European Union report on anti-Semitism in Europe ascribed responsibility for the rising tide of violence against Jews to "young, disaffected white Europeans," a finding that flew in the face of much hard, if politically inconvenient, evidence that it is for the most part the work of Muslim youths.
The OPCW is not able to ascribe responsibility for the attack, but identification of the nerve agent as novichok would strengthen the view that Russian state forces were involved.
Houry said HRW is pushing for a mechanism to ascribe responsibility for the chlorine attacks and impose sanctions on the culprits, a step that has been resisted by Russia, which backs Assad.
