https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/07/ai-and-microdirectives.html
Bruce Schenier, AI and Microdirectives
Imagine a future in which AIs automatically interpret—and enforce—laws.
All day and every day, you constantly receive highly personalized
instructions for how to comply with the law, sent directly by your
government and law enforcement. You’re told how to cross the street,
how fast to drive on the way to work, and what you’re allowed to say
or do online—if you’re in any situation that might have legal
implications, you’re told exactly what to do, in real time.
Imagine that the computer system formulating these personal legal
directives at mass scale is so complex that no one can explain how it
reasons or works. But if you ignore a directive, the system will know,
and it’ll be used as evidence in the prosecution that’s sure to follow.
...
The heart of the issue: If you’re accused by a computer, are you
entitled to review that computer’s inner workings and potentially
challenge its accuracy in court? What does cross-examination look like
when the prosecutor’s witness is a computer? How could you possibly
access, analyze, and understand all microdirectives relevant to your
case in order to challenge the AI’s legal interpretation? How could
courts hope to ensure equal application of the law? Like the man from
the country in Franz Kafka’s parable in The Trial, you’d die waiting
for access to the law, because the law is limitless and incomprehensible.
Maurizio
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