There are reasons certain laws prohibit or limit consent due to intellectually one-sided relationships. There are clear interactions that are so uneven that law is created specifically to protect the disadvantaged from being dominated. Even already, advanced computer systems and advanced AI systems are being used by those in power to physiologically gain advantage over others; the whole knowledge is power thing. What about soon when these tools are so sophisticated they are thousands or millions or more times more “intelligent” than any human being. Wouldn’t that be unfair by an measure? Should it be fair to have such a system be the tool used to negotiate a contract or to make requests for good or services? Anyone would recognize the problem with allowing 10 year old kids to enter into contract with an “adult” or an organization. We should be putting such statutory limitation in place now before we set precedence to the contrary.
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Well said…I agree!
We should be anticipating and reducing exploitation wherever possible. The trouble is we don’t know what we don’t know…so how would we know?
Most people are unlikely to educate themselves to become more informed…so timely statutory limitations seem sensible. The likelihood that AI will expose people to exploitation is high…but our stupidity exposes us perhaps to a much greater extent.