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packbat ([personal profile] packbat) wrote2007-11-28 09:33 am

Story Idea

1. True AI is fairly new - perhaps as new as the Internet is now.
2. At some point early on, it has been established that AIs are legal persons.
3. An AI breaks the law in a way that would normally confer the death penalty.
4. Its sentence: to be reprogrammed - not killed - so that it will not do it again.

The story follows the hacker or hackers employed to do the job.

Re: Speculation...

[identity profile] packbat.livejournal.com 2007-11-29 12:12 pm (UTC)(link)
It might be an accepted trope, but I find it dubious, personally.

...although it would have some neat advantages - e.g. there might in fact be only the one AI, explaining why the cases are being handled in such a screwy manner.