> The Supreme Court, on the other hand, is trying to decide complex or arguably ambiguous legal questions based on a large corpus of past law, all of which is almost certainly included in an AI's training data.
Given an AI that is truly unbiased, and only considers either the intent at the time (Originalism) or the literal, textual interpretation of the law, I suspect this won’t go as expected for the Silicon Valley AI crowd since interpreting law based on the text would make the court far more conservative than it is now.
Progressives believe in a “Living Constitution” standard, the idea that the law can change based on 21st century cultural values, not the text as it was written or intended by the legislature.
> the idea that the law can change based on 21st century cultural values, not the text as it was written or intended by the legislature.
Right. If it wouldn‘t, then the law could in fact come to be opposed to what everyone believes even over an extended period of time as well as what can be believed under careful consideration or new evidence. It would then become an oppressive force.
Given an AI that is truly unbiased, and only considers either the intent at the time (Originalism) or the literal, textual interpretation of the law, I suspect this won’t go as expected for the Silicon Valley AI crowd since interpreting law based on the text would make the court far more conservative than it is now.
Progressives believe in a “Living Constitution” standard, the idea that the law can change based on 21st century cultural values, not the text as it was written or intended by the legislature.