“The American legal system deals with new technologies much as a reptile digests a meal–slowly. I get email from readers about defending the Constitution, something we all support. I am not an attorney, but my impression of Constitutional law is that it is a tediously complex thicket of case law that must be carefully picked through before we can even begin to understand exactly what we’re defending: every issue anyone might be concerned about has already accumulated an immense load of rulings and arguments.

This is American jurisprudence: advocacy goes to trial and ruling are issued, some as rulings that will pertain to all future cases and some that will not. The law advances in new fields such as AI as positions are argued before judges / juries and then reviewed by higher courts as losers appeal judgments / rulings.

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AI has certain novel features which have yet to be decided by the processes of advocacy, rulings and appeals.”

http://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2024/04/the-spear-in-ais-back.html

“Now anti-trust regulators are finally looking at the uncompetitive wastelands created by Big Tech”