Technology,
Law Practice
Jul. 21, 2021
Fabled paperclip maximizer saga elicits AI and law lessons
A longstanding parable in AI is that there might someday be a super-intelligent system that would seek to attain a human-provided goal and yet do so to the detriment of humanity. Though facets of this saga are criticized as farfetched, there are nonetheless useful insights to be gleaned, including for AI and the law.
Lance Eliot
Chief AI Scientist
Techbrium Inc.
Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a Stanford Fellow and a world-renowned expert on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the Law with over 6.8+ million amassed views of his AI columns. As a seasoned executive and high-tech entrepreneur, he combines practical industry experience with deep academic research and serves as a Stanford Fellow at Stanford University.
Most attorneys probably don't give much thought to paper clips.
Turns out that the lowly paperclip has another purpose besides holding together some of your legal papers, namely serving as a crucial cornerstone of an ongoing and altogether acrimonious debate in the field of artificial intelligence.
In a now-classic paper published in 2003, philosopher Nick Bostrom of Oxford University conjured up a ...
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