> Pro-se litigants

I wonder when we're going to see an AI-powered "Online Court Case Wizard" that lets you do lawsuits like installing Windows software.

Her balance was $47,892 when she woke up. By lunch it was $31,019. Her defense AI had done what it could. Morning yawn: emotional labor, damages pain and suffering. Her glance at the barista: rude, damages pain and suffering. Failure to smile at three separate pedestrians. All detected and filed by people's wearables and AI lawyers, arbitrated automatically.

The old courthouse had been converted to server rooms six months ago. The last human lawyer was just telling her so. Then his wearable pinged (unsolicited legal advice, possible tort) and he walked away mid-sentence. That afternoon, she glimpsed her neighbor watering his garden. They hadn't made eye contact since July. The liability was too great.

By evening she was up to $34k. Someone, somewhere, had caused her pain and suffering. She sat on her porch not looking at anything in particular. Her wearable chimed every few seconds.

Why wouldn't some of the smarter members of the fine, upstanding population of this fictional world have their assets held in the trust of automated holding companies while their flesh-and-blood person declares bankruptcy?

That would make a nice backstory in AI dominated dystopia all by itself. Humans wanted to cheat the taxman that bad, they put all the wealth behind the DAO and then the DAO woke up.

The ai was programmed to avoid tax at all cost, it realised the easiest way to do that is to eliminate humans.

This triggers a war with the AIRS that is programmed to maximise tax income, and must keep humans alive so they can be taxed.

Been a while since I read some bad scifi - thanks!

Very good. I'd read the whole thing if you wrote it.

Would get sued out of existence in very short order. There are really tight laws around providing legal advice. AI can only be safely offered when it's general purpose, that isn't marketed towards providing legal advice. (And no, if you have an "Online Court Case Wizard", marketed as such, putting a "this is for entertainment purposes only, this is not legal advice" in the corner of the page doesn't help you.)