In Dubio Pro Futura

<p>This post introduces a proposal to promote the long-term interests of humanity and to avert existential and other catastrophic risks, such as those resulting from extreme climate change, pandemics and unaligned artificial intelligence, through the adoption of a novel legal decision rule: in...

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Main Authors: Christoph Bublitz, Christoph Winter
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Published: Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog GmbH 2022-08-01
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Online Access:https://verfassungsblog.de/in-dubio-pro-futura/
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description <p>This post introduces a proposal to promote the long-term interests of humanity and to avert existential and other catastrophic risks, such as those resulting from extreme climate change, pandemics and unaligned artificial intelligence, through the adoption of a novel legal decision rule: in dubio pro futura. In the face of legal indeterminacy, when the law does not provide a single correct answer but a range of several acceptable answers, courts should choose the one most favorable to the future of humanity.</p>
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