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That'd be a neat trick. Not even the humans can understand legal language. Perhaps the singularity begins with an expert system suddenly grokking the entirety o
by noonespecial 15y ago
That'd be a neat trick. Not even the humans can understand legal language. Perhaps the singularity begins with an expert system suddenly grokking the entirety of law, resolving the paradoxes and contradictions, and then suing all humanity for infringement. Hard-takeoff trolling...
- thret 15y agoIf that isn't already a science fiction short story, it should be.
- ph0rque 15y agoAnd a research project, a partnership between the law school and the CS department of a university... EDIT: just saw swampthing's comment below, such things exist.
- jgfoot 15y agoAsimov's "I, Robot" stories cover this territory well. The robots must follow three laws, which are simple enough on their surface, but in application prove tough to predict. The humans begin to see that the laws have unintended and undesirable consequences.
- thwarted 15y agoI just recently finished Accelerando, where corporations are composed of and contracts are carried out by software agents (the story starts out with them just being expert systems). It's not the main topic, but a major supporting background.