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Doing that can get you banned from a lot of projects on GitHub. Citing specific humans by name as having undertaken specific actions on specific dates is sometimes seen as aggression or harassment, even if you stick to pure factual statements. The actions of people at work, socially, are often seen as “actions of the company”. Mentioning people by personal name is frowned upon.

I’ve actually had comments deleted for discussing things in this mode: Human X did thing Y.

I think our society doesn’t like it when we highlight personal responsibility for things people are only choosing to do to get a paycheck to pay their bills.

It’s easier for everyone involved to say “Google developed AI software that allowed military drones to decide who to kill” than to say “John Smith developed AI software that allowed military drones to decide who to kill”.

Not that I think we should not use both forms. Individual choices matter, and facts are facts.