>>12231That is a very old dispute that began in the 1800s
Lawyers want to make machines legal subjects and direct machines by legal decree, engineers don't want lawyers interfering how they build machines, because lawyers don't know how machines work.
I'm not really sure what the stakes for the rest of society are. I thought that only people can be legal subjects, but then again the US legal system apparently accepts corporations as legal subjects, which i find very confusing, would they imprison a stack of legal documents ?
I doubt that you can make a computer that understands laws and then comply with it. Most people don't understand laws afterall.
You can make a computer lawyer from a text-generator AI, but that one won't understand laws either, it could however get extremely good at calculating the probability of what the next word of legalese it should output to maximize it's goal function.
I wish laws were written in materialist philosophical terms, that way it would be easier to understand what they mean.