“AI is incredibly clever, but it can be incredibly clever at breaking rules.”
Following a radical proposal to allow “non-human corporations” to operate in Argentina, granting legal personhood to machines means an AI boss could easily break the law to exploit profits because “you can’t send an AI to prison,” says lecturer at the University of Cambridge, Dr Tom McClelland.
Dr Tom McClelland was speaking to John Pienaar on Times Radio Drive. Listen live every Monday to Thursday from 4pm–7pm.
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