Imagine an AI lawyer that instantly knows the legality or illegality of something anywhere. Or imagine patent attorney work or even protecting a patent.
The patent issue is fascinating to me because AI might not only find patent infringement, for example, it could construct a case on it and fight against it across countries.
Anything that’s intellectual that has a large knowledge base is on the table. An “attorney” that has a 100% photographic memory and can instantly work through the a topic is very powerful.
If you were on trial for a serious crime, would you want an AI jury, judge - or lawyer?
We’re probably going there. Some jurisdictions already involve AI for some minor infractions; and it’s not too long until AI will be used to predict criminal behavior (think ‘Minority Report’ and ‘precrime’.)
The more I’ve learned about this, the more it scares me - especially in the areas of law and justice. (Malicious content deletion or corruption, the artificial creation of ‘evidence’, to mention just two).
‘Power’ that’s very useful can be used for good reasons or for evil and stupidly dangerous ones.