Why do I feel like I alone own every risk this AI creates?

You built the controls. You understand the system better than anyone above you. So when something goes wrong, your mind hands you the whole bill — every misuse, every downstream harm, every decision a hundred other people might make with what you built. This feels like responsibility. It is actually confusion. One person cannot own outcomes that depend on many other people's choices — how they use the tool, what leadership funds, what the organization tolerates. Carrying all of it alone is not diligence. It is a failure to draw a line. The work here is not to feel less. It is to see clearly what is yours: your design, your warnings, your honesty about limits. Everything past that line belongs to someone else's hands. Name it. Hand it back.