It's not our fault our AI chose to set prices so high they extract all the money from customers. We just told it to find more efficient business strategies. How were we supposed to know that collectively raising prices with our competitors would bankrupt the public? It's not a conspiracy, we just chose the same AI models and the AIs just coalesced on the same answer. /S
Seriously though, your absolutely right
If he claimed to know how it worked, they wouldn’t be able to sell it as a scapegoat for indefensible business decisions.