<div><div><div><div dir="auto">Any scenario that ultimately leaves judicial decisions in the hands of AI strikes me as dystopian. An unstated, yet integral, aspect of human notions of justice is the concept of empathy. Any adjudicative ruling made by an agent which has no ability to empathize with the parties and witnesses will never feel like justice to us, however sound the ruling might be.</div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">When the powers-that-be begin to delegate the adjudication of human civil disputes and, especially, criminal penalties to non-human agents, I believe many of us will be ready to enlist the services of Sarah and John Connor...</div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><b style="color:rgb(49,49,49);word-spacing:1px"><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in;font-size:1rem">0</span></b><b style="color:rgb(49,49,49);word-spacing:1px"><sup><span style="font-size:0.7083333134651184rem;color:rgb(34,34,34);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">0</span></sup></b><br></div></div><div><div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 3:11 PM Henry Rivera <<a href="mailto:hrivera@alumni.virginia.edu" target="_blank">hrivera@alumni.virginia.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><span></span></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr">I saw a movie recently where an AI judge type scenario was played out. It was Chappie I think, and the AI/droid police are given much authority to dispose of a case immediately upon apprehending the suspect. It left little room for discussion of mitigating circumstances and the like. That’s just one interpretation of how that could play out I realize. </div></div></div></blockquote></div></div>
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