Liza Vertinsky (University of Maryland Carey School of Law) has posted How Law Facilitates AI Capture of Democratic Information Networks in Research Handbook on Law in the Age of Superintelligence (Woodrow Barfield & Jonathan Blitz eds., forthcoming), on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
This chapter explores the ways in which digital information technologies—information technologies involving some combination of the internet and use of AI—have impacted the information networks underpinning our market democracy, and what we might expect in the future as the influence of an increasingly intrusive AI on information networks expands. I argue that U.S. law has not just allowed, but facilitated, a breakdown in the information ecosystem needed to support a robust market democracy, leaving us ill-prepared to respond to the challenges that an ever more intelligent, and perhaps one day superintelligent, AI raises for preserving a democratic information ecosystem. I conclude with the hope that we are still at an inflexion point, in which human governance of our information networks is possible and democratic information networks still within reach. Yet without radical changes in how we govern our information networks—including but not limited to change in the law, and corresponding changes in the commercial incentives currently dominating design choices for AI technologies—it seems likely that AI will end up deciding not just what information we receive, but what we believe and how we behave as a result.
Highly recommended!
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