Marcelo Thompson

So, here goes a Sci-Fi thought (or perhaps not quite).

If singularity theories turn out to be right, what to make of a principle of technological neutrality (in law and politics)?

Even if we assume the internal coherence of such a principle. Even if we assume that there is a sound legal theoretical way of explaining it. Even if we assume it now makes sense from the standpoint of some pallatable theories of justice — all that which I believe we cannot do.

40 years gone by, will it make us safe? Will it make us free? Or will it rather be a theory of justice *for machines*?

Two commentators put it well: “technological neutrality is a quite particular anti-discriminatory rule as it protects technologies … instead of legal subjects“.

I may be wrong, but, technological neutrality following its course, we are likely to see the rise of a monumental tidal bore if singularity comes true.