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Most humans don’t have an accurate understanding of legal language either, but it’s even worse, because they think they understand it. Even those that do understand can’t rely on a specific outcome.

The refrain I keep hearing is “I’d rather we didn’t”, but all the incentives are aligned such that it is clear that we almost certainly will, if we don’t already behind closed doors.

I’d rather we didn’t have lethal autonomous weapons systems too, but we do, and I’m willing to bet they’re not going away.

So, while we have the chance, should we develop the laws by which they operate in cleartext in public, or hidden inside of existing bureaucracies and autocracies?



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