On the Path to AI: Law’s prophecies and the conceptual foundations of the machine learning age

Livro digital

Título:
On the Path to AI: Law’s prophecies and the conceptual foundations of the machine learning age

Autor:
Thomas D. Grant, Damon J. Wischik

Categoria:
Tecnologia > IA

Doador:
Raffaello D. N.

Sinopse:
What if the best way to understand machine learning is to place it beside a revolution in legal thought? Moving through “Two Revolutions,” “Experience and Data as Input,” and “Output as Prophecy,” Thomas D. Grant and Damon J. Wischik connect the rise of data-driven prediction to Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.’s view of law as experience, pattern, and anticipation rather than pure deduction. The analogy becomes a working lens for examining how models find patterns, produce predictions, and resist simple explanations. Chapters on juries as reliable predictors, poisonous datasets, accountability, and the path from Holmes to AlphaGo expose the social questions hidden inside technical systems: whose history becomes data, which patterns acquire authority, and how prediction should be challenged when its reasoning is difficult to inspect. Written for readers across technology, law, policy, and the humanities, the book avoids both technological mysticism and easy alarmism. It offers a conceptual vocabulary for thinking clearly about bias, explainability, regulation, and responsibility, while showing that today’s arguments about intelligent machines belong to a much longer struggle over how societies turn past experience into decisions about the future.