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

Grant, Thomas D.; Wischik, Damon J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3030435814 ISBN 13: 9783030435813

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020

Synopsis

This open access book explores machine learning and its impact on how we make sense of the world. It does so by bringing together two ‘revolutions’ in a surprising analogy: the revolution of machine learning, which has placed computing on the path to artificial intelligence, and the revolution in thinking about the law that was spurred by Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr in the last two decades of the 19th century. Holmes reconceived law as prophecy based on experience, prefiguring the buzzwords of the machine learning age―prediction based on datasets.

On the path to AI introduces readers to the key concepts of machine learning, discusses the potential applications and limitations of predictions generated by machines using data, and informs current debates amongst scholars, lawyers and policy makers on how it should be used and regulated wisely. Technologists will also find useful lessons learned from the last 120 years of legal grappling with accountability, explainability, and biased data. 

About this title

About the Author

Thomas D. Grant is a Fellow of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge, UK.

Damon J. Wischik is a Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge, UK.

Edition details

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3030435814
• ISBN 13: 9783030435813
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 169