Keeping AI Legal
AI programs make numerous decisions on their own, lack transparency, and may change frequently. Hence, the article shows, unassisted human agents such as auditors, accountants, inspectors, and police cannot ensure that AI guided instruments will abide by the law. Human agents need assistance of AI oversight programs that analyze and oversee the operational AI programs. The article then asks whether operational AI programs should be programmed to enable human users to override them without that such a move would undermine the legal order. The article next points out that AI operational programs provide very high surveillance capacities, and that hence AI oversight programs are essential for protecting individual rights in the cyber age. The article closes by discussing the argument that AI guided instruments, e.g. robots, lead to endangering much more than the legal order that they may turn on their makers, or even destroy humanity.