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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.
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.
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Re: Speculation...
Just FYI, it's perfectly feasible -- and generally accepted in the genre -- that AI would be an emergent system, and thus there wouldn't really be any particular responsibility on the part of the initial programmer, any more than a parent is responsible for the actions of a child (including a grown child).
Re: Speculation...
...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.