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AI and law.
WareWolf:
Question: exactly who makes the laws that govern AIs in the QCverse? Are AI's represented in that governing body? I get the impression that the AI's regulate themselves to a large degree (robot cops, Robot Jail) but under what ultimate authority? Is there a parallel government and a parallel set of laws, like that that exists in places with a large Native American reservation? And what happens when the two come into conflict?
EDIT: Upon reflection, the analogy to Native American tribal police forces isn't apt. Those police have a designated area where they have authority. The AI cops and legal system appear to exist in the same physical space as us meatbags. So who mediates when those come into conflict? And who makes the rules for whom?
Morituri:
It certainly looks to me that the AIs in the QCverse are very much part of the citizenry and subject to the same laws.
I would expect that Officer Basilisk is part of the local PD and works in partnership with humans, in exactly the same way that Momo is part of the Smif library staff and works in partnership with humans. I haven't seen anything that indicates that when AIs break the law they would get judged and sentenced by anyone different or according to any different rules than human lawbreakers. If there are any gaps in the law, it's only because now that citizens with different abilities exist there are new ways to commit crimes.
The law may be struggling to catch up, the way family law is now struggling to catch up with same-sex marriage and the welfare of children of blended homes - when there are four people the child regards as parents, how do you deal with that without causing trauma?
I can't see any indication that "Robot jail" is a better or worse place than the jail they put people in, nor treated any differently by the judiciary. It's implemented differently, but people seem to have the same opinion of going there.
gprimr1:
I got the feeling that AI crimes is just another part of the state police. Police departments have special units, like vice squad, traffic squad, financial crimes, you name it, I don't think the AI crimes unit is a different police force, I would suspect Officer Basilisk has the power to arrest humans as well as AIs.
I think it's similar to how you might see female cops working vice squad or police officers with financial backgrounds working in finance crimes.
Neko_Ali:
We've seen cases where human authorities intervened in cases involving AIs. Vespabot and Pintsize as example. As far as the AI crimes department, we've only seen one example so far, that's not a sufficient sample size. All we can do is speculate why Officer Basilisk might join such a place. By her actions regarding the fight club, she seems mostly interested in stopping illegal activity harming AIs. She seems less concerned about the illegal gambling going on than she is about AIs being exploited or harmed. She also seems to be alone in these concerns.
There are separate facilities in dealing with AI criminals though. Most likely because of the physical differences between the groups. Robot jail for instance doesn't have to worry about cells, exercise yards, rehabilitation facilities or the same sort of infrastructure. By the sounds of it they put the AI's personality cores into server racks and limit their exposure to the outside while trying to rehabilitate. The AI parole officer is probably there the same reason there are AI cops in the robot crimes division. AIs and anthro pc bodies have unique differences from human bodies that must be accounted for. It's entirely possible they just have an office in the regular parole office and deal with any of the AIs under their care.
WareWolf:
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There are separate facilities in dealing with AI criminals though. Most likely because of the physical differences between the groups. Robot jail for instance doesn't have to worry about cells, exercise yards, rehabilitation facilities or the same sort of infrastructure. By the sounds of it they put the AI's personality cores into server racks and limit their exposure to the outside while trying to rehabilitate.
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For an idea of just how horrific this could become, see "Altered Carbon" by Richard K. Morgan.
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