The idea that intent is an important part of determining the punishment/morals of the crime came out of the French Enlightenment. I'd really rather not roll back this. The difference between an accident, manslaughter, and first degree murder are non-trivial and VERY IMPORTANT.
Also fuck you if you want to train an ML bot to that job. You clear don't get it.
And how long until you can train the ML bot to do better than a randomly selected jury at predicting what a larger jury would make of a case?
"Your parcel was delivered, but the contents were damaged. According to the picture provided by the purchaser the person inside died while in transit."
What? A person? "It was a mannequin. It's a piece of plastic."
The bot prints out a thermal receipt onto a tray. "You are charged with: Manslaughter. Fifteen to twenty years. Sign here."
> Also fuck you if you want to train an ML bot to that job. You clear don't get it.
Very interesting :) - can you elaborate more?