Is A.I. Above the Law?

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Like horses, people held as slaves were generally treated by property law as things, not persons. Many were the centers and institutes founded to ponder the Future of Humanity, Humans and Machines, A. I. and the Law. “That these are the early days of Robot Law almost goes without saying,” an editor of the pioneering anthology “Robot Law” wrote in 2016. Congress has not passed a single federal law regulating A. I. in any meaningful way.

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