“only a lunatic or a fanatic sues for $30.”
A bit off topic here but this is IMHO a great challenge for AI: making a lawyer affordable for the masses when they are bullied by banks, airlines, etc.
If it costs you $5 , why not sue for $30 ?
A bit off topic here but this is IMHO a great challenge for AI: making a lawyer affordable for the masses when they are bullied by banks, airlines, etc.
If it costs you $5 , why not sue for $30 ?
That isn't a great challenge for AI. That's a rotten legal and regulatory system. Why band-aid over society's real problems with software?
If the AI makes it expensive to take advantage of the problem then they'll simply stop doing so.
Of course the race will be on to be the first person to work out how to trick the AI, that person could make a boat load before it is fixed or self-corrects.
Chasing a return with a potential risk of loss several orders of magnitude higher is insane.
The usual way to deal with a $30 fee that wasn't valid in my experience is request a chargeback on your credit card and dare the company to come get it from you. That works often enough that court isn't really necessary IMO.
And we could say turn to the blockchain and smart contracts which market themselves as replacements for both real money and real lawyers, but we saw what happens when real techies write the smart contracts (case in point $150M DAO scam and then a fork of the blockchain itself), so we are definitely going to need to replaces software makers and coders with AI too.
I don't think there's any simple or easy solution to these problems. They're messy human problems with vested interests, and smart people are going to have to work hard, together, to implement even partial solutions.
Government and politics are unpleasant and can go horribly wrong. But I've come to distrust all simplistic answers that begin, "All you need to do is X", whether "X" is "privatize everything" or "invent benevolent AI" or "allow the state to wither away in favor of an enlightened proletariat." No, I think we need to work very hard, be smart, and try to find common ground with as many other people as we can. And if merely sort of works, we should count ourselves lucky.