How/why has it been determined that True AI are legal persons?
I'm not entirely sure yet. That is pretty important to the story, isn't it?
[...] If they can be reprogrammed to determine their inability to repeat a certain action, why isn't the person who programmed them in the first place also responsible for the initial action, to the extent that this would be punishable by law if a human being were behind or involved in conspiracy leading to criminal activities of others?
The original programmer(s) probably w(as/ere) responsible; the story isn't about them. What I wanted to attack was the question of whether one could, without killing the A.I., change its personality in the right way, and what it would entail.
(Of course, it might be possible to simply put 'barriers' in its mind against some kinds of acts, System Shock (http://www.shamusyoung.com/shocked/index.html) style.)
(My first thought, though, when I saw "death penalty" and "employed to do the job", was that, for the rest of the story and beyond, the AI sits on Reprogram Row while a series of appeals delays proceedings and seriously ties up the budget.)
That never occurred to me - I guess that shows how little I know about programming projects - but it would almost certainly be happening in the background.
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Re: Speculation...
I'm not entirely sure yet. That is pretty important to the story, isn't it?
[...] If they can be reprogrammed to determine their inability to repeat a certain action, why isn't the person who programmed them in the first place also responsible for the initial action, to the extent that this would be punishable by law if a human being were behind or involved in conspiracy leading to criminal activities of others?
The original programmer(s) probably w(as/ere) responsible; the story isn't about them. What I wanted to attack was the question of whether one could, without killing the A.I., change its personality in the right way, and what it would entail.
(Of course, it might be possible to simply put 'barriers' in its mind against some kinds of acts, System Shock (http://www.shamusyoung.com/shocked/index.html) style.)
(My first thought, though, when I saw "death penalty" and "employed to do the job", was that, for the rest of the story and beyond, the AI sits on Reprogram Row while a series of appeals delays proceedings and seriously ties up the budget.)
That never occurred to me - I guess that shows how little I know about programming projects - but it would almost certainly be happening in the background.