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Sunday, June 06, 2021

AI will change this when it comes to power.

https://www.proquest.com/openview/c171f18581f5fe5f0a72eafe1b73b7df/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=38868

THE LEGAL STATUS OF THE DESIGNATION OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN A SYSTEM OF MODERN LAW

To date, the sphere of IT technologies is a fairly developed sector of society. Computers cope in almost all sectors of the life of every citizen, starting with labor relations and ending with relationships in everyday life. Day after day, the operational systems of IT technologies are being upgraded to make them faster and more adaptable. Ten years ago, the idea of operating supercomputers was something beyond fiction. However, today it is a completely existing reality. Most of the operations performed by humans are already performed by android computers.

Digital society, artificial intelligence and modern civil law: challenges and perspectives

The article analyses the problems of civil law regulation of relations arising in the digital society. The property relations, the civil turnover sphere is increasingly shifting to various kinds of electronic platforms. The process was further accelerated by the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. The development and application of artificial intelligence technologies bring forward the problem of ensuring safety for humans from the negative impact of such technologies, minimizing threats to their life and health. Due to the virtuality of artificial intelligence as a social phenomenon, a product, a good created by man, the application of traditional legal means to regulate social relations connected with the application of artificial intelligence technologies at present does not provide a full solution to a number of uncertainties arising on the market of goods, works and services. To this end, it is proposed to form a new legal fiction in civil law at the level of scientific doctrine to resolve legal uncertainties arising in civil turnover due to the use of artificial intelligence technologies. It is about formalizing artificial intelligence technology as a subject of law as an “electronic person” or “electronic legal entity” bringing together several legal entities with a special legal personality.

PPA is coming. What are we willing to allow?

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11948-021-00312-x

Achieving Equity with Predictive Policing Algorithms: A Social Safety Net Perspective

Whereas using artificial intelligence (AI) to predict natural hazards is promising, applying a predictive policing algorithm (PPA) to predict human threats to others continues to be debated. Whereas PPAs were reported to be initially successful in Germany and Japan, the killing of Black Americans by police in the US has sparked a call to dismantle AI in law enforcement. However, although PPAs may statistically associate suspects with economically disadvantaged classes and ethnic minorities, the targeted groups they aim to protect are often vulnerable populations as well (e.g., victims of human trafficking, kidnapping, domestic violence, or drug abuse). Thus, determining how to enhance the benefits of PPA while reducing bias through better management is important. In this paper, we propose a policy schema to address this issue. First, after clarifying relevant concepts, we examine major criticisms of PPAs and argue that some of them should be addressed. If banning AI or making it taboo is an unrealistic solution, we must learn from our errors to improve AI. We next identify additional challenges of PPAs and offer recommendations from a policy viewpoint. We conclude that the employment of PPAs should be merged into broader governance of the social safety net and audited publicly by parliament and civic society so that the unjust social structure that breeds bias can be revised.

Just a reminder. Why are we willing to ‘bet the company’ on these technologies?

https://news.mit.edu/2021/ankur-moitra-0606

On a quest through uncharted territory

In his research and in other parts of life, Ankur Moitra likes to journey off the beaten path. His explorer mentality has brought him to at least one edge of the unknown — where he seeks to determine how machine learning, used in increasingly diverse and numerous applications, actually works.

“Machine learning is eating up the world around us,” says Moitra, a theoretical computer scientist and associate professor in MIT’s Department of Mathematics, “and it works so well that it is easy to forget that we don’t know why it works.”

How lazy have we become?

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