Legal Narration of Human-Machine Community in"For Want of a Nail"
Human-machine community represents the harmonious co-existence between human and robots.However,the rapid development of artificial intelligence inevitably gives rise to some ethical and legal issues that demand immediate attention.Mary Robinette Kowal,the American science fiction writer,has extended her concerns for legal problems in human-machine community in three aspects:the identity of the robot,the distribution of liability as well as the functioning of artificial intelligence in her Hugo award-winning story"For Want of a Nail"in 2011.Apparently,the story indicates Kowal's forward-looking vision and awareness.It also provides readers and legislators with an opportunity to think via fictional plots,which showcases the legal imagination in literary works and the positive significance of them to legal research.
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