Publication Date
8-2-2022
Abstract
This Article considers the impacts of the ongoing failure to govern artificial intelligence (AI) systems and uses for which humans are the computational and decisional subjects. Ungoverned AI systems and uses can have profound, devastating impacts upon those humans, their families and communities, and society at large. Because the law in its current state is grossly inadequate for the Algorithmic Age, these AI systems and uses threaten a digital form of AI-mediated involuntary servitude and subordination. This Article proceeds in three Parts. First, it discusses the scope of involuntary servitude and other forms of enslavement as they have evolved from the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment to diverse and contemporary forms. Second, it considers the nature of what it means to be an increasingly digital person, and how data about people are used and owned, as property and input, for AI-driven systems of economic production within the public-private power conglomerate Apple CEO, Tim Cook, has decried as the Data Industrial Complex. Third, it theorizes that ungoverned AI results in conditions of AI-mediated subordination that may be seen as analogous to conditions in many systems of involuntary servitude and other forms of enslavement.
First Page
667
Recommended Citation
Emile Loza de Siles, Artificial Intelligence Subordination: Consequence of the Failure to Govern, 99 DENV. L. REV. 667 (2022).