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The concept of artificial intelligence dates back to at least 1950, when computer scientist Alan Turing ran his famous test for a computer that could make someone in an adjoining room believe they were conversing with another human. The term itself was probably coined by Professor John McCarthy of Dartmouth in 1956. Yet the term IA did not find its place in any reported federal case (and, even then, only in passing) until 1989. To date, the bulk of AI business deals with intellectual property issues, not its actual deployment in the real world.
It is now common to observe, as Professor Baker does in The centaur’s dilemma, that “law and policy seldom keep pace with technology,” but in the case of artificial intelligence, this is both patently true and particularly troubling. This is because right now we are on the verge of an AI revolution and there are hardly any laws to guide us. In The centaur’s dilemma, Professor Baker provides a thoughtful and thought-provoking account of where AI law should go (and where it can go if left unchecked) through the lens of national security, perhaps the area most in need of legal advice. When a pedestrian is killed by a driverless car, it is a tragedy; when a non-combatant is killed by a lethal autonomous weapons system, it could well be a war crime.
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