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Degrees Of Confidence As A Legal Tool To Assess Ai System Liability, Joshua Song Sep 2022

Degrees Of Confidence As A Legal Tool To Assess Ai System Liability, Joshua Song

Michigan Technology Law Review

AI systems have become increasingly integrated into our everyday lives, and harms caused by these systems have graduated from raising hypothetical ethical concerns to questions of actual legal liability. Civil liability schemes are generally designed to address harms caused by humans; thus, it may be tempting to analogize new types of harms caused by AI systems to familiar harms caused by humans in order to justify commandeering existing human-centered legal tools to assess AI liability. However, the analogy is inappropriate and misrepresents salient legal differences in how harms are committed by humans and AI systems. Thus, “as is often the …


Officer-Created Jeopardy And Reasonableness Reform: Rebuttable Presumption Of Unreasonableness Within 42 U.S.C. § 1983 Police Use Of Force Claims, Bryan Borodkin Jun 2022

Officer-Created Jeopardy And Reasonableness Reform: Rebuttable Presumption Of Unreasonableness Within 42 U.S.C. § 1983 Police Use Of Force Claims, Bryan Borodkin

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

This Note analyzes the current state of civil law surrounding police use of excessive force, highlighting the evolution of the “objective reasonableness” test employed in civil police use of force lawsuits brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. This Note also discusses the role that social movements and surveillance technologies have played in furthering police accountability and shifting public opinion surrounding police use of force. After detailing this social and technological context, this Note addresses the numerous problems presented by the “objective reasonableness” test employed within civil police use of force cases, analyzing this problematic test from the perspective of both …