[ExI] Legal zero-days?

[Stuart LaForge]

I assume by "legal zero-days" you mean unintentional loopholes in the 
law ad opposed to the fairly common intentional loopholes built into the 
laws by lobbyists to facilitate monopoly and regulatory capture by 
private interest.

I suppose the latter would be more akin to "legal backdoors".

Stuart LaForge


On 2026-06-16 07:52, Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat wrote:
> https://www.science.org/content/article/ai-models-have-troubling-knack-discovering-legal-loopholes
> 
> A law comes out on Monday, AI-assisted actors with no insider warning
> this law was coming out conduct their analyses right away,
> corporations designed to exploit this law start getting set up on
> Tuesday, millions or billions legally siphoned from the public before
> the legislature (who, at least in the near future, will in most cases
> barely know that AI can be used this way) even processes that there
> are complaints let alone is able to fix the law.  Courts can't help
> since making things retroactively illegal has been prohibited, for
> good reason, for centuries.
> 
> The long term fix is for legislatures to start analyzing their own
> proposed laws this way before passage...but in addition to all the
> other usual barriers to adoption of such a practice, this would also
> prevent legislators from Doing Something (TM) that is blatantly
> ineffectual or actively countereffectual (because that would be
> flagged by such analyses), a long standing cherished tradition among
> legislators.
> 
> Imagine if, say, the US Congress was finally forced to pass actual
> immigration reform this way: all the proposals to "fix" the system
> with more shoot-from-the-hip extremist outrage (on either side) keep
> getting flagged for the exploits that will form, while proposals that
> actually fix the system - the kind that moderates tend to propose -
> pass review.
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