The things this situation posed in the article illuminate are that proper government oversight and distribution of concerns are a necessary part of balancing power. The tensions designed into a system help address its edge cases to varying degrees. And the article points out how to manage one of these situations generally--it's an excellent list of insights. Automation should be balanced with humans in the loop, automated systems are imperfect, humans are too. Balanced systems with separations of concerns yield good results. Discretion can be exercised and applied appropriately and the relationships with their respective concerns can sort out these edge cases and share that info when and where it furthers common interest.