Je Young Cheong has posted (Artificial Intelligence) Artificial Justice or True Intelligence? Prospects, Limitations and Recommendations for our Algorithmic Legal Future on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
The advent of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been an awoken giant, bearing the promise of a reverie future. Recall the nostalgia of the famous cartoon, The Jetsons, where the breadwinner of the family (George) worked a whopping 2-hours a week operating an “atomic supercomputer” just by pressing buttons. The sheer absurdity of such depiction drives an obsessive infatuation that has persisted to this day, bearing blissful idealization of a science-fiction and unattainable alternate reality. However, the exponential eclosion of AI’s capabilities are perhaps prophesizing that the fascinations of a wholly automated life may no longer be as fictionally Hanna-Barbera as we once thought. In a recent interview, Elon Musk opined that, in the coming future, jobs will change from being a necessity for survival into a hobby one willfully undertakes, as AI substitute the need for our manual labor. In this future, AI can perform various executions without need for human supplementation, relieving us of our labour to allow for a maximized life enjoyment. When this prophecy will come to light or what ethical implications it would bring is beyond the perimeters of this writing. But a certainty is this: the future is AI, and if life is to remain humanistically governed, the Law must proficiently define how the future will be written. The purpose of this writing, therefore, is to contribute to the wealth of discussion on AI and the Law from the perspective of what it means, its prospects for the future and the limitations of its eclosion.