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AI and law.
Is it cold in here?:
I've heard about legal systems where parents do get prosecuted for the actions of their children, because the law supposes that parents control their children.
NyxDarkness:
There is the possibility that the AI in question do not have a predisposition towards crime. There's always that old theory of nature vs. nurture. An AI with true free will would be susceptible to such a thing. 'Naturally', they would not be programmed with crime.exe installed, but just like with humans, they could aquire the desire/need to commit some crime through circumstance. Most humans are raised to think badly of criminals, but somewhere along the way, we get corrupted and some end up as thieves or killers or forgers. If you call it a "fault in the design", would you say the same for a human thief?
Tova:
I think that society in general, and AIs specifically, would be much worse off for failing to hold robots accountable for their own behaviour. If AIs are no longer considered to be responsible for their actions, then that can only lead to bad behaviour.
How far back do you want to go? Does the manufacturer hold the original AI pioneers responsible? Do they hold the scientists of the past responsible?
There is supposedly no such thing as free will, but society will not last unless we act as though there is. In this sense, AIs are no different from any of us.
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 24 Nov 2016, 11:38 ---I've heard about legal systems where parents do get prosecuted for the actions of their children, because the law supposes that parents control their children.
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While they are still children, but what about after they are of legal age?
Neko_Ali:
AIs in Jeph's world are not programmed. They are emergent phenomenons. When a new AI is made, they are brought into being by the large group minds that don't use chassis and just spend time thinking. They are not custom programmed to fill a role, but rather they decide what they want to do with their lives. They are sentient beings as much as any human, not just a product made to specification. If you could program AIs with a 'crime.exe' then crime by AIs would not exist. Any crime committed by an AI would be because someone programmed them to do it. When May embezzled the money, she was the one sent to Robot Jail, not the ones who employed her, or the ones who programmed her.
Carl-E:
Pretty sure that the development of an AI - especially a sentient one - is a chaotic process, in the mathematical sense.
In other words, terribly unpredictable.
You put it into the creche, let it run, and how it turns out is anyone's guess.
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