The article has nothing to do with thinking. But in the scope of the article, it's an interesting legal conundrum. I expect the end result is that the class of

The article has nothing to do with thinking. But in the scope of the article, it's an interesting legal conundrum. I expect the end result is that the class of software which can perform illegal actions autonomously will have to be brought under warranty and the creators held responsible. "Acme Inc. Warrants that under Factory Conditions and Standard Programming, Software Agent R2-D2 will not conduct illegal actions". This is not out of the range of possibility and even feasibility today, but it will require genuine engineering mentalities to create such systems.