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Playing the devil's advocate:
If implemented correctly, an LLM has an advantage as it can only van do literal implementation of the law, and pre existent legislature and is essentially blind to who people are.
So it can be a blind and incorruptible judge.
However will it remain so?
"If implemented correctly" is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that statement.
If
If implemented correctly, politicians also have neither possibility nor incentive to fall to corruption.
If implemented correctly, we would live in a flawless utopia.
The problem is that nothing ever is implemented corrwctly, so the point of any system really is to have the least desastrous failure mode.
I mean several people have argued this.
I remain of the opinion that there is -technically- a way to make this work. The problem of implementation is maybe a human flaw, but we've seen in history that there can be ways to change things.
200 years ago three were few democracies, for instance.
The fundamental problem with the law is that she should be blind to the person being judged, this technology can offer that.
I'm quite sure most people arguing that implementation would be difficult, but that's not due to technical circumstance.
And it's more the technical aspect that interests me, not the 'will never happen' side. It's a thought experiment.