Jill Lepore on the current legal landscape being very behind with respect to artificial intelligence.
In the study of law and technology, this is known as the “pacing problem”—the law, a tortoise, can’t keep up with technological change, a hare.
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If the Hugging Face hack was a final warning, it was a warning not for tech companies but for governments and for voters, and especially for legal scholars, judges, and legislators. Because, until the law learns to bend, robots as actors will remain in a no man’s land of outlawry.
Is A.I. Above the Law?, by Jill Lepore.
If the stakes are that high, the precautionary principle seems appropriate. Slow down the hare but also hurry up the tortoise?