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For questions about the legal aspects and ramifications due to the creation/use of AI in various fields and applications (also laws in place to regulate the proper use of AI technology).

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How will artificial intelligence affect the legal profession in the next decade?

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What regulations are already in place regarding artificial general intelligences?

What regulations are already in place regarding artificial general intelligences? What reports or recommendations prepared by official government authorities were already published? So far, I know of Sir David King's report done for UK government.
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How is the "right to explanation" reasonable?

There has been recent uptick in interest in eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI). Here is XAI's mission as stated on its DARPA page: The Explainable AI (XAI) program aims to create a suite of machine learning techniques that: Produce more…
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Would an AI with human intelligence have the same rights as a human under current legal frameworks?

For example, would an AI be able to own property, evict tenants, acquire debt, employ, vote, or marry? What are the legal structures in place to implement a strong AI into society?
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Should intelligent AI be granted the same rights as humans?

One of the most crucial questions we as a species and as intelligent beings will have to address lies with the rights we plan to grant to AI. This question is intended to see if a compromise can be found between conservative anthropocentrism and…
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Has government-level legal work been done to determine the "rights" of a General Artificial Intelligence, in any country?

I have been thinking lately a great deal about a hypothetical question - what if a self-aware general AI chose to assume the appearance, voice, and name of Cortana from Microsoft's Halo? Or Siri from Apple? What would Microsoft/Apple do to exert…
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Can Google's patented ML algorithms be used commercially?

I just find that Google patents some of the widely used machine learning algorithms. For example: System and method for addressing overfitting in a neural network (Dropout?) Processing images using deep neural networks Methods and apparatus for…
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NLP proved against US legal texts

I'm new to AI development and am looking for a quality algorithm (potentially nlp?) implementation proved against US legal texts. Obviously some training would need to be done, but I've found little to no online references to go on when it comes to…
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Is it illegal to use pictures of public figures to train a neural network?

I want to train a neural network with pictures of public figures (politicians, singers, etc), but I do not know if it's legal, I do not plan to show them in my project I only want to use them to train the neural network, can this cause legal…
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When we create artificial life and artificial intelligence will we require it to obey human laws?

Assuming mankind will eventually create artificial humans, but in doing so have we put equal effort into how humans will relate to an artificial human, and what can we expect in return? This is happening in real-time as we place AI trucks and cars…
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What methods are there to detect discrimination in trained models?

I've been researching AI regulation and compliance (see my related question on law.stackexchange), and one of the big take-aways that I had is that the regulations that apply to a human will apply to an AI agent in most if not all cases. This has…
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Can I recognize the faces of people around the world?

I created a system where every moment takes photos of the face of who is in the vision of the camera. Initially I took 500 photos of me, to recognize its creator. This takes approximately 20 seconds. Then every moment he recognizes faces and if it…
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Digital Rights and Agents talking to humans

How does the legal question about agents talking to humans via telephone connection work? Recently Google gave a talk about Duplex, where an agent makes a call to a human to schedule a hairdresser. I wonder if there are any regulations related to…
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How will morality questions be settled in the domain of self-driving cars?

How will morality questions be settled in the domain of self-driving cars? For example If a dog is crossing the road, I'd expect the car to try to avoid it. But what if this leads to .00001% more risk for the driver? What is the 'risk…
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How much power might the creator of the first Artificial General Intelligence obtain?

If Artificial General Intelligence is possible, whoever creates it is likely to have a lot of power. What might this look like in practical terms, and what might be limiters? Good answers will include aspects such as historical precedents…
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Is it legal to license and sell the output of a neural network that was trained on data that you don't own the license to?

Is it legal to license and sell the output of a neural network that was trained on data that you don't own the license to? For example, suppose you trained WaveNet on a collection of popular music. Could you then sell the audio that the WaveNet…
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