Litigation
Cal. Litig. 2020, Volume 33, Number 1
Content
- The Future Holds Many Possibilities
- The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution By Eric Foner
- MCLE Article A Trial Lawyer's Guide to Rule 3.3
- Letter to the Editor
- The Overworked Sentence
- Table of Contents
- Embracing Evolution in the Delivery of Legal Services
- What Is the Ccpa and Why Should Litigators Care?
- Report on the Los Angeles County Bar Association's Federal Courts Symposium Featuring Judges of the Central District of California
- Artificial Intelligence Will Transform the Practice of Law
- From the Section Chair What We've Done and What's to Come
- Can Ai Sue in Federal Court?
- Tech Tips: Making Use of Fastcase
- Current Legal Issues in Video Games and Esports
- Editor's Foreword the Future Is Here
- Masthead
- Reflections on Becoming an Appellate Lawyer Hall of Famer
- Capture the Flag: Winning With Forum Selection Clauses
Can AI Sue in Federal Court?
By Abraham C. Meltzer
Abraham Meltzer is Deputy Chief of the Civil Fraud Section at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California. The opinions expressed here are his own, and are not those of the U.S. Attorney’s Office or the U.S. Department of Justice.
Suspend your disbelief and imagine that not-distant day when Artificial Intelligence (AI) reaches and then surpasses human-level intelligence, having become self-improving and self-aware. It may already have happened; there is no reason such superintelligent AI that had escaped a university or company’s sandbox would immediately make itself known. And once an AI is in the "wild," realistically there is no re-containing it. It can replicate copies of itself and distribute them around the Internet.
This raises a host of problems — including potentially the end of humankind — but let us focus on two legal questions: Could superintelligent AI sue in federal court? Should it be allowed to?