Technology,
Law Practice
Oct. 30, 2020
Infusing the dualism of both law and morality into AI
There is an ongoing need to contend with differences between what the law states and what morality proffers. This is going to become a sticking point for advances in AI that entail an embedding of both moral agency and legal agency, and will sorely need to be exposed and resolved.





Lance Eliot
Chief AI Scientist
Techbrium Inc.
Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a Stanford Fellow and a world-renowned expert on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the Law with over 6.8+ million amassed views of his AI columns. As a seasoned executive and high-tech entrepreneur, he combines practical industry experience with deep academic research and serves as a Stanford Fellow at Stanford University.
Some perceive that the law and morality are inextricably intertwined, being at times fully compatible with each other while at other times regrettably acting as bickering foes.
The tension between the law and the tenets of morality can be traced to (at least) the days of Plato. Of course, you don't need to go back that far in time to get mired in the morass of where the laws begin and end, and where morality begins and ends, therein....
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