HOW DOES Britain, with no frontier lab(前沿实验室) to its name, thrive in a world of rampant(猖獗的；蔓延的) artificial intelligence? Part of the answer lies in the courts. London can be a place where claimants bring a new generation of disputes relating to AI—if it puts in some hard graft, says Sir Geoffrey Vos. He steps down this week as the Master of the Rolls, the second-most-senior judge in England and Wales who oversees the civil courts.(他本周卸任卷宗主事官——英格兰和威尔士第二高级别、负责监督民事法院的法官。) He has some parting advice.
英国连一家前沿实验室都没有，如何在人工智能肆虐的世界里蓬勃发展？部分答案在法院。杰弗里·沃斯爵士说，只要肯下苦功，伦敦可以成为当事人就新一代人工智能纠纷提起诉讼的地方。他本周卸任卷宗主事官——这一职位是英格兰和威尔士第二高级别的法官，负责监督民事法院。他留下了一些临别建议。
Sustaining London’s success, he says, relies on ensuring that English law can give certain and predictable answers to the novel legal problems that AI will throw up.(他说，维持伦敦的成功取决于确保英国法能对人工智能将抛出的新法律问题给出确定、可预测的答案。) “What this says to the world is, if you want a law which is really thinking about the problems of our modern age, English law is one of those laws,” says Sir Geoffrey, “so come here to resolve those disputes.”
他说，要维持伦敦的成功，就必须确保英国法能够对人工智能将抛出的新法律问题给出确定、可预测的答案。杰弗里爵士说：“这向世界传递的信息是：如果你想要一部真正思考我们时代问题的法律，英国法就是其中之一，所以来这里解决这些纠纷吧。”
He has led a task-force(工作组；特别小组) that has set out to(着手；旨在) define what the common law implies for a range of hypothetical(假设的；假想的) AI problems. Is a human liable(负有法律责任的) if an AI tool libels(诽谤（书面）) someone, or if an AI architect designs a faulty building? Is a radiologist negligent(有过失的) if they failed to use an AI tool that could have detected a tumour? A forthcoming paper will deal with agentic(代理式的；自主行动的) AI tools, which carry out tasks autonomously(自主地；独立地) on behalf of a user. The challenge, says Jacob Turner, a barrister and member of the task-force, is that “AI is the only technology that we have ever developed in the history of civilisation that is able to make its own decisions.”(工作组员、大律师雅各布·特纳说，挑战在于“AI是文明史上我们开发过的唯一能自行决策的技术”。)
他领导了一个工作组，着手界定普通法对一系列假设性人工智能问题的立场。如果AI工具诽谤他人，或AI建筑师设计了有缺陷的建筑，人类要负责吗？如果放射科医生没有使用本可发现肿瘤的AI工具，是否构成过失？一篇即将发表的论文将讨论代理式AI工具——这类工具代表用户自主执行任务。工作组员、大律师雅各布·特纳说，挑战在于“AI是文明史上我们开发过的唯一能自行决策的技术”。