Daniel Hootenlocker wrote an article stating that humans are to blame for AI failures.
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The Dan Bongino ShowSep 16, 2026
The Wall Street Journal published an opinion piece titled "Humans Are to Blame for AI Failures" on September 15, 2026, written by Daniel Huttenlocher, dean of MIT's Schwarzman College of Computing. The claim's spelling "Hootenlocker" is the post's own misspelling of that name, and the referent is the same person and article, so the core assertion holds.
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… hit us with cyber attacks, so you can't even turn on your freaking phone and find out where your kids are with your, like, Life 360 app or whatever. You'll be back to that post the other day following Mikey through the woods. Some of you'll get that. This piece yesterday in The Wall Street Journal, bookmark it, screen shot it. This is, again, common sense, folks. Put this up and keep it up until I'm next. This is important. I screen, I took a screenshot of a paragraph from an article by a Daniel Hootenlocker. Sorry if I'm saying her name wrong. It's not intentional. Humans are to blame for AI failures. Correct, we built it. This isn't Field of Dreams with Kevin Costner. Was really owed in that too? If you build it, they will come. We did build it. …
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Supports. The WSJ opinion piece "Humans Are to Blame for AI Failures" was published September 15, 2026, and argues that human choices, not AI, bear responsibility for AI failures.[2]
Supports. An MIT News clip of the WSJ article identifies its author as Prof. Daniel Huttenlocher, dean of MIT's Schwarzman College of Computing, and quotes him that accountability remains with the people and institutions that grant AI power to act.[1]
Supports. A WSJ post on X promotes the piece as "Humans are to blame for AI failures" by Daniel Huttenlocher, corroborating the authorship and headline.[3]
Context. The name in the claim ("Hootenlocker") is a misspelling of "Huttenlocher" that the speaker himself flagged ("Sorry if I'm saying her name wrong"). It does not change the referent, so it is not a contradiction.[1][2]
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- 1Clip The Wall Street Journal Humans Are to Blame for AI ...news.mit.edu · primary source · cited for: supports, context
- 2Humans Are to Blame for AI Failureswsj.com · tier 2 · cited for: supports, context
- 3Humans Are to Blame for AI Failuresx.com · not rated · cited for: supports
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