AI & Law: Dualism Of Law And Morality In AI Agency

Dualism duels will occur amidst AI-enabled moral agents and AI legal-focused agents

by Dr. Lance B. Eliot

For a free podcast of this article, visit this link https://ai-law.libsyn.com/website or find our AI & Law podcast series on Spotify, iTunes, iHeartRadio, plus on other audio services. For the latest trends about AI & Law, visit our website www.ai-law.legal

Key briefing points about this article:

• The law has a close cousin, morality, for which there is at times agreement and sometimes not
• Society has wrestled with the dualism of the law and morality for millennia
• Recent advances in AI have led to attempts at embedding AI-enabled moral agents into software
• Likewise, there is a need to embed AI-enabled law-oriented agents into software
• Inevitably these two types of AI agencies will clash and the question of resolution is still open

Introduction

Two peas in a pod.

Except that sometimes there is only one pea in the pod and the other one is left out altogether.

What am I referring to?

The focus herein entails the crucial roles that both the law and the tenets of morality undertake in our overall socio-economic and legal world. As will be discussed, advances in…