AI & Law: Legal Entanglements Of Banning AI Arise Even In The Case Of Autonomous Weapons

Legally banning AI might not be so easy, here’s why

by Dr. Lance B. Eliot

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Key briefing points about this article:

• AI has gotten into trouble and transcended the initial professed welcoming
• We have discovered that AI systems can embed all kinds of unsavory aspects
• Debates about what type of AI should be legally banned is an ongoing exercise
• It might seem obvious that a legal ban on AI for autonomous weapons should occur
• A close look at the autonomous weapons issue showcases tradeoffs exist even there

Introduction

Ban that darned AI.

That is the rallying cry for many that have become fed up with the foul deeds being performed by some AI systems. Perhaps the most prominent such proclamation of recent note entails the use of AI-based facial recognition systems.

Whereas the original assumption was that facial recognition would be a quite handy…