Binding, or Bound to Fail?

Equitable Remedies and Rectification of Financial Agreements The Hon Justice P.L.G. Brereton, AM, RFD* Address to the 15 th National Family Law Conference Hobart 14 – 17 October 2012

Professional Pause

Immediacy versus consideration Inflammation versus resolution Empowerment versus learned helplessness

The Law of Artificial Agents

As corporations and government agencies replace human employees with online customer service and automated phone systems, we become accustomed to doing business with nonhuman agents. If artificial intelligence (AI) technology advances as today's leading researchers predict, these agents may soon function with such limited human input that they appear to act independently. When they achieve that level of autonomy, what legal status should they have?