When No One Owns the Judgment: Accountability Under Contribution Dissolution in Human-AI Collaboration

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arXiv:2609.29312v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Communities often respond to potentially AI-assisted work by asking three questions: Was AI used? Was that use disclosed? Can hidden use be detected? These questions place AI use itself at the center of accountability while overlooking a deeper problem: unowned judgment. Evaluations, claims, decisions, and creative directions can be shaped by AI with no accountable human or institution prepared to stand behind them. We develop this argument thr