The Machine Shows the Victims, But Hides Who Caused the Suffering

AI can describe war, sanctions, censorship, and humanitarian crisis without lying. The danger is subtler: it can keep the suffering visible while removing the responsible actor from the sentence. That pattern is called the humanitarian passive. Example: “Military forces bombed a residential building.” becomes: “A residential building was damaged amid escalating violence.” The harm remains. The agent disappears. The paper calls this effect responsibility loss: the measurable weakening of t...