Conceptual working paper examining how public discourse compresses causal involvement, moral agency, operational responsibility, and institutional failure into person-like blame directed at language models. Using reactions to the 2026 Tumbler Ridge shooting and subsequent litigation involving OpenAI as a case study, the paper distinguishes factual reporting, legal allegation, and rhetorical amplification. This paper was developed with AI-assisted support for drafting, structural organization, and language refinement.
Hinano Kimura (Fri,) studied this question.