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We Automated the Work. We Forgot to Own the Decisions.

Automation used to be safe because humans stayed in the loop.

That’s no longer true.

Today, automated systems decide:

What gets escalated

What gets approved

What gets blocked

When those decisions cause outages or compliance issues, accountability disappears fast.

Not because teams are careless —
but because decision ownership was never designed into the system.

I wrote a deep dive on why this is becoming one of the most underestimated risks in modern IT operations.

Link if useful:
👉 https://mjbtech.com/blog_pages/When-ServiceNow-Makes-the-Call-Who-Owns-the-Risk.html

How are you handling accountability when automation makes operational decisions?

DevOps #Automation #AIinProduction #ITGovernance #EnterpriseTech

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