LLMs discover legal vulnerabilities in Germany
Original title: AIs Hacking the Law
LLMs have uncovered previously unknown vulnerabilities in the German legal system through automated reasoning.
Bruce Schneier discusses how AIs can hack legal systems in a 2021 essay and 2022 book. In Germany, LLMs identified a substantial number of vulnerabilities in the legal system that have not been previously recorded. The text shares a selection of these vulnerabilities along with potential exploits that would not cause serious harm. With proliferating cheap legal reasoning, AI systems could jeopardize today's legal systems, requiring lawmakers to leverage advanced AI themselves.
- LLMs identified substantial number of previously unknown vulnerabilities in German legal system
- Vulnerabilities shared only if exploitation would not cause serious harm
- AI could jeopardize functioning of legal systems
- Lawmakers may need to use advanced AI to harden legislation
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- laws
- Organizations
- Schneier on Security
- Countries
- Germany
From the original article
1 min read at schneier.comIn both a 2021 essay and my 2022 book, A Hacker’s Mind, I talk about AIs finding vulnerabilities and exploits—hacking—the legal system. Here’s some demonstrations of this from Germany: Legal systems encode the foundations of social order in natural language. Similar to computer systems, the written law can contain vulnerabilities that invite exploitation.
By Bruce Schneier · schneier.com
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