alt Hacker NewsSo you want them to be infinitely more litigious?
A serious question though, what does happen when AIs are filing lawsuits autonomously on behalf of the powerful, the courts clearly won't be able to cope unless you have AI powered courts too? None of how these monumental changes will work has been thought through at all, let's hope AI is smart enough to tell us what to do...
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Oracle could reasonably be hit with some sort of stick every time they filed a frivolous lawsuit until the AI got tuned appropriately. Then it'd be a situation where Oracle were continuously suing people who don't follow the law, following a reasonably neutral and well calibrated standard that is probably going to end up as similar to an intelligent and well practised barrister. That would be acceptable. If people aren't meant to be following the law that is a problem for the legislators.
I'm envisioning a future where there's a centralized "legal exchange", much like the NYSE, where high speed machines file micro-ligation billions of times faster than any human can, which is decided equally quickly, an unrelenting back and forth buzz of lawsuits and payouts as every corporation wages constant automated legal battle. Small businesses are consumed in seconds, destroyed by the filing of a million computerized grievances while the major players end up in a sort of zero-sum stalemate, where money is constantly moving, but it never shifts the balance of power.
... has anyone ever written a book about this? If not, I think I'm gonna call dibs.
>A serious question though, what does happen when AIs are filing lawsuits autonomously on behalf of the powerful,
AI controlled cheap Chinese drones will start flying into their residencies carrying some trivial to make high explosives. With the class wars getting hotter in next few years we may be saying that Luigi Mangione had the right ideas towards the PMC, but he was underachiever.
> A serious question though, what does happen when AIs are filing lawsuits autonomously on behalf of the powerful
It won't just be at the behalf of the powerful.
If lawyers are able to file 10x as many lawsuits per hour, the cost of filing a lawsuit is going to go down dramatically, and that's assuming a maximally-unfriendly regulatory environment where you still officially need a human lawyer in the loop.
This will enable people to e.g. use letters signed by an attorney at law, or even small claims court, as their customer support hotline, because that actually produces results in today.
Nobody is prepared for that. Not the companies, not the powerful, not the courts, nobody.