Accountability Gap
The distance between who benefits from a system and who absorbs its failure.
The accountability gap is the distance between the actor who benefits from a system and the actor who absorbs its failure.
In AI infrastructure, the gap becomes especially useful when model owners, deployers, clients and affected people are separated across contracts and jurisdictions.
Opacity is not always an accident. Once it has legal utility, it can become part of how the system protects itself.