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Local councillors, unaware, approve law entirely written by AI in Brazil

17 points by flykespice 3y ago

mrcartmeneses 3y ago
“It would be unfair to the population to run the risk of the project not being approved simply because it was written by artificial intelligence,” he added. Then why not just write it yourself?
beezlewax 3y ago
This is a non-story. He used a tool to create a law to his design.
cesarb 3y ago
It always annoys me when news articles about laws neglect to mention the number of the law (which would allow us to look it up and read it directly). So I went looking, and found it: it's complementary municipal law 993/2023 (https://legislacao.portoalegre.rs.gov.br/norma/47673 https://legislacao.portoalegre.rs.gov.br/norma/47673), which adds a single article to complementary municipal law 170/1987 (https://legislacao.portoalegre.rs.gov.br/norma/24099 https://legislacao.portoalegre.rs.gov.br/norma/24099). As you can see if you download the docx in the first link, it's a single page, which contains a pair of articles written in a very boilerplate way (the first article inserts a new article, with three paragraphs, into the other law, and the second article says that the law takes effect immediately once published).
figassis 3y ago
This makes me conflicted. On one hand, if a law written by ai is passed on its merits, then it should not matter, and in this case it looks like it was. On the other hand, the opportunity for abuse, where one can write copious amounts of law that (because now it’s easy and fast) is impossible to tell if it’s ai or not can quickly create untenable laws that no one is willing to revisit bc no one can prove they were not written with concern for the people.
- RA2lover 3y ago
  Isn't this already done with omnibus bills? Having law that needs to pass regularly has encouraged politicians to include completely unrelated things into them without sufficient oversight, long predating AI.

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Local councillors, unaware, approve law entirely written by AI in Brazil

17 points by flykespice 3y ago

mrcartmeneses 3y ago
“It would be unfair to the population to run the risk of the project not being approved simply because it was written by artificial intelligence,” he added. Then why not just write it yourself?
beezlewax 3y ago
This is a non-story. He used a tool to create a law to his design.
cesarb 3y ago
It always annoys me when news articles about laws neglect to mention the number of the law (which would allow us to look it up and read it directly). So I went looking, and found it: it's complementary municipal law 993/2023 (https://legislacao.portoalegre.rs.gov.br/norma/47673 https://legislacao.portoalegre.rs.gov.br/norma/47673), which adds a single article to complementary municipal law 170/1987 (https://legislacao.portoalegre.rs.gov.br/norma/24099 https://legislacao.portoalegre.rs.gov.br/norma/24099). As you can see if you download the docx in the first link, it's a single page, which contains a pair of articles written in a very boilerplate way (the first article inserts a new article, with three paragraphs, into the other law, and the second article says that the law takes effect immediately once published).
figassis 3y ago
This makes me conflicted. On one hand, if a law written by ai is passed on its merits, then it should not matter, and in this case it looks like it was. On the other hand, the opportunity for abuse, where one can write copious amounts of law that (because now it’s easy and fast) is impossible to tell if it’s ai or not can quickly create untenable laws that no one is willing to revisit bc no one can prove they were not written with concern for the people.
- RA2lover 3y ago
  Isn't this already done with omnibus bills? Having law that needs to pass regularly has encouraged politicians to include completely unrelated things into them without sufficient oversight, long predating AI.