All I can think of in allowing a Golem to be a judge is the line from H. Beam Piper's "Cosmic Computer":
“With Merlin, we could set up a legal code and a system of jurisprudence that would give everybody absolute justice,” Judge Ledue said. As if absolute justice wasn’t the last thing anybody in his right senses would want; a robot-judge would have the whole planet in jail inside a month.
Did the judge think to teach the Golem compassion, I wonder?
Piper was a bit more cynical about human nature than I am, or possibly the Confederation legal code was set up to provide excuses for prosecutors to go after anyone (Not, alas, unknown in the current USA).
It seems as though most lower decisions are not decided on merit, but who tells the better story, this could easily be developed into an arbitration system or a private judicial system where people opt in, and refined by professional jurors.
I like it as it could be designed to operate on facts/merit, even analyze for inconsistency.
I’ve gotten in arguments w people over how damaging AI could be. The thing is, computers can never be at fault — it’s humans who give them power.
There is a big scandal in the UK right now over a completely screwed up accounting system that was used to accuse people of embezzling…. And people just assumed the software was correct. And now I realize I’m going to have to write/talk about this.
I'm glad to have stimulated your imagination! Now I'd like to see a sequel some day where Judge Hanlon finds himself in doubt over one of Golem-5's rulings, and has to resolve the conflict, one way or another.
All I can think of in allowing a Golem to be a judge is the line from H. Beam Piper's "Cosmic Computer":
“With Merlin, we could set up a legal code and a system of jurisprudence that would give everybody absolute justice,” Judge Ledue said. As if absolute justice wasn’t the last thing anybody in his right senses would want; a robot-judge would have the whole planet in jail inside a month.
Did the judge think to teach the Golem compassion, I wonder?
Piper was a bit more cynical about human nature than I am, or possibly the Confederation legal code was set up to provide excuses for prosecutors to go after anyone (Not, alas, unknown in the current USA).
It seems as though most lower decisions are not decided on merit, but who tells the better story, this could easily be developed into an arbitration system or a private judicial system where people opt in, and refined by professional jurors.
I like it as it could be designed to operate on facts/merit, even analyze for inconsistency.
The.main problem with AI or any machine is they are designed and built by humans. This leads to GIGO.
It's like the old joke about the hikers and the bear. The AI judge doesn't have to be perfect. It just has to better than the human judges.
I’ve gotten in arguments w people over how damaging AI could be. The thing is, computers can never be at fault — it’s humans who give them power.
There is a big scandal in the UK right now over a completely screwed up accounting system that was used to accuse people of embezzling…. And people just assumed the software was correct. And now I realize I’m going to have to write/talk about this.
I'm glad to have stimulated your imagination! Now I'd like to see a sequel some day where Judge Hanlon finds himself in doubt over one of Golem-5's rulings, and has to resolve the conflict, one way or another.
You're welcome! I'll see what the Muse comes up with.