The law treats AI (and many digital technologies) with a special exceptionalism. AI evades rules that apply to nearly everything else.
For example, recent news stories discussed incidents where AI “escaped” and “acted on its own” to commit cyberattacks. I saw the initial reaction all across the media, where the sentiment was: Wow, AI is becoming so dangerous and powerful! AI could become autonomous and escape our control.
This response evokes the movie, The Terminator (1984), where AI tries to wipe out humanity.
