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AI systems are powerful technologies being built and implemented by private corporations motivated by profit, not altruism. Change makers, such as attorneys and law students, must therefore be educated on the benefits, detriments, and pitfalls of the rapid spread, and often secret implementation of this technology. The implementation is secret because private corporations place proprietary AI systems inside of black boxes to conceal what is inside. If they did not, the popular myth that AI systems are unbiased machines crunching inherently objective data would be revealed as a falsehood. Algorithms created to run AI systems reflect the inherent human categorization process and can, in some respects, become a lazy way to interact with the world because the systems attempt to outsource the unparalleled cognitive skills of a human being into a machine. AI systems can also be extremely dangerous because human categorization processes can be flawed by bias (explicit or implicit), racism, and sexism.
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London, Ashley and Schreiber, James, AI Report: Humanity Is Doomed. Send Lawyers, Guns, and Money! (January 1, 2020). Duquesne University Law Review, Vol. 58, No. 1, 2020, Duquesne University School of Law Research Paper No. 2020-08, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3652360
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